House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) will try again to get one or more appropriations bills passed this week. A Continuing Resolution is not on the schedule yet, but that could change. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) efforts to make progress either on a CR or the FY2024 DOD ap...
Many federal government agencies are funded annually by a dozen appropriations bills that need to be passed by Congress and signed by the president before the start of the new fiscal year on Oct. 1. These are often grouped together into one large piece of legislation known as an "omnibus" ...
In the United States, appropriations bills for the federal government's spending are passed by Congress. The government's fiscal year runs from October 1 through September 30 of each calendar year. Each fiscal year, the U.S. President submits a budget proposal to Congress. Budget committees in...
WHAT'S IN THE PENDING APPROPRIATIONS BILLSThe appropriations bills most affecting the Middle East...By McArthurShirl
So far, the House has passed five of the required appropriations bills and the Senate has passed zero. None of the funding plans have passed both chambers. To keep the government operating during this time-consuming process, Congress sometimes resorts to passing ...
which means every department has to put all of its non-essential workers on furlough,” Morning Joe economic analyst Steve Rattner said. “Even back in ‘95 when we had the last shutdown a number of appropriations bills had been passed and made the shutdown a little less effective or mana...
President Trump and congressional Democrats entered a standoff over his demand for funding for a border wall. The disruption lasted 35 days, through the holiday season, but was also only a partial government shutdown because Congress had passed some appropriations bill...
There is no requirement for both houses of Congress to pass a budget. If it fails to do so, budget resolutions from previous years carry over. Individual appropriations bills are used to fund necessary discretionary expenses. Those discretionary items include military spending and education, among ...
If text is delayed until Tuesday, House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) warned that the House could have to stay until Friday because the speaker “very much” wants to stick by the 72-hour rule. Then the Senate would have a limited amount of time b...
By the end of last week, the House had passed four appropriations bills, but they contain cuts that Democrats and the Biden administration are sure to reject, as well social policy riders that Democrats on the committee said were "irrelevant" and "harmful." ...