After voting to pass the stopgap bill to avert a shutdown, the Senate voted to pass a separate bill to allow Washington, DC, to maintain control over its funds after Democrats warned the GOP government funding package would cut $1.1 billion of the city’s funding. It’s not yet clear, ...
House Speaker Mike Johnson said ahead of the measure's release on Tuesday that it was originally intended to be "a very simple, very clean" stopgapfunding measureto get the party into the new year. He is now left to deal with growing discontent among members of his own party as a Friday...
Stopgap Spending Bill Clears Congress. What Happens Next?Passage of the spending bill, which goes to Obama for signing,averts a midnight government...Chaddock, Gail Russell
The stopgap measure would also support federal wildland firefighters, including raising their pay and providing premium pay for those responding to fires, according to a GOP summary of the bill. And it would increase funding for air traffic control systems by $753 million above the prior year’s...
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" bill....
though it will receive the same type of coverage. The event comes just ahead ofa key federal funding deadline on March 14, at which point the federal government will run out of money. Trumphas called for the GOP-led Congress to adopt a stopgap funding measureto keep the government open, ...
Trump said in his post that Long has worked as a tax adviser since leaving Congress advising taxpayers how to navigate IRS regulations. “Taxpayers and the wonderful employees of the IRS will love having Billy at the helm. He is the consummate ‘people person,’ well respected on both sides...
The U.S Capitol is seen after U.S, President-elect Donald Trump called on U.S. lawmakers to reject a stopgap bill to keep the government funded past Friday, raising the likelihood of a partial shutdown, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 19, 2024. ...
It’s Monday evening. Federal funding runs dry Friday night. Do you know where the stopgap spending bill text is? Congressional leaders are now scrambling to try to lock down agreement on a short-term government funding bill and disaster aid package that they hope...
The government is funded through 12 individual spending bills. When Congress needs more time to pass them, they often use a stopgap measure to bump back the expiration deadlines for all 12 of those bills. But in November, Congress split them up. ...