The funding package, released just before midnight on Monday, would punt difficult negotiations over the dozen annual spending bills until after the November midterm elections. It notably sidesteps the Biden administration’s requestfor emergency funds to combat the coronavirus pandemicand monkeypox, acc...
Under terms of an agreement that former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.,worked outwith then-President Joe Biden, spending for defense and nondefense would increase by 1% for the current budget year, which began Oct. 1. That would bring the tallies to about $895.2 billion ...
Biden on Monday vowed to veto the House Republican spending bills if they make it to his desk, saying they backed away from the deal. The military and veterans bill would provide $155.7 billion in discretionary spending for military construction and veterans affairs. The health and agriculture ...
FOX Business host Larry Kudlow gives his take on the 'cost of living crisis' under President Biden on 'Kudlow.' There may be no hope to truly tame inflation. That's the subject of tonight’s Riff. Stock market bulls continue to toutFederal Reserve interest rate cuts, but the latest Fed...
. It’s even rarer for that to happen twice in as many months. Such was the case during Biden’s return visit to the Capitol last week. The president made a similar entreaty in late September when everyone thought the House would vote on the infrastructure and social spending bills th...
President Joe Biden Thursday signed the omnibus spending bill into law while on vacation, extending funding for the government into next year.
The bill, which still has to be signed into law by President Joe Biden, also calls on e-commerce platforms to do more vetting to help deter counterfeit goods from being sold online, and forces companies pursuing large mergers to pay more to file with federal antitrust agencies. ...
Under Trump and Biden, the spending burden has grown much faster (even if we ignore the orgy of COVID spending). Unfortunately, it is likely that the next four years will be just as bad as the past eight years. That’s because both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are big spenders. Not...
It’s not the first time this has come up. For 15 years, lawmakers have included language in spending bills and CRs to explicitly ban member pay increases tied to cost of living increases that would otherwise be automatic under a 1989 statute. Other leaders have tried to bring up a pay ...
with a simple majority. But they would need almost every Republican to vote in support of teeing up debate, then for passage — a feat they have continually failed to pull off over the last two years as conservative lawmakers block party leaders from passing funding bills under a simple ...