The House is expected to vote on passage of the military construction bill later this week and could turn as early as Thursday to a second appropriations bill, which would fund agriculture programs, rural development initiatives and the Food and Drug Administration. The agriculture bill could...
An appropriations bill moving through the Republican-led House of Representatives would reduce spending during the 2024 fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 for federal public defender services by about $42 million from its current $1.49 billion budget. A version drafted by the Democrat...
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for Responsible Federal Budget, recently said in a statement that the stopgap spending bill will hopefully allow Congress to pass appropriations bills in the next few weeks before the con...
also suspended the debt limit and capped discretionary spending through fiscal year 2025, which concludes next September. Congress will have to debate whether to retain those spending caps, let them lapse or impose more stringent requirements when they're debating annual appropriations b...
23, which will allow negotiators time to complete work on the full-year bill. "Now, the House and Senate Appropriations Committees will work around the clock to negotiate the details of final 2023 spending bills that can be supported by the House and Senate and receive President Biden’s ...
Congressional appropriators released a bicameral, bipartisan spending package that covers fiscal year 2024 appropriations for the US Energy Department and other agencies. The six-bill package, released on March 3, will keep funding steady for some federal energy programs but would slash the US ...
House Republican leaders then negotiated again with Democratic leaders, and just six hours before a potential federal government shutdown, the two sides reached an agreement and passed a new short-term spending bill. US Con...
A U.S. House appropriations bill has included $200 million to address the shortage of truck parking spaces. This funding aims to alleviate a significant issue faced by truck drivers, who often struggle to find safe and legal parking. The investment will go towards building new parking facilities...
Secretary Blinken’s January 29-31, 2023 visit to Egypt, Israel and the Palestinian Authority was another one of his milestones, well-intentioned – but erroneous – Middle East legacies. It has backfired on vital US interests, in general, and the pursuit of regional stability and peace, in...
” wrote the far-right House Freedom Caucus in a statement. “Unfortunately, that’s precisely what has been proposed in order to buy time — incredibly — to pass full-year appropriations thatincreasePelosi’s spending and likely preserve