Washington —House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Saturdayreached a last-minute compromiseto keep the federal government running and avoid a costly shutdown. A 45-day stopgap spending bill with wide bipartisan support in both chambers passed both the House and Senate with hours to spare, and went to...
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 deadline looms.
1. A GOVERNMENT FUNDING FIASCO With just over three weeksuntil Uncle Sam runs out of money, Johnsonhas laid out a planto pass another stopgap funding bill to keep the government running through either mid-January or mid-April. As you’ll recall,KEVIN McCARTHY’sembrace of a “continuing re...
McCarthy faced a so-called motion to vacate from Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who put forth the motion after McCarthy, his allies and Democrats passed a stopgap funding bill to keep the federal government open -- legislation that Republican hard-liners said greenlit too much spending. ...
“Trump-Vance statement trashes the bipartisan stopgap funding bill and now calls for adding a DEBT CEILING INCREASE, which is nowhere in the mix. Two days till government shuts down,”notedNBC News’ Sahil Kapur. Trump and his Vice President-elect, JD...
FUNDING WOES:House GOP leadership scrapped plans Wednesday for a vote on the party’s stopgap funding plan as its chances of passage sank in recent days amid opposition from defense hawks, hard-line conservatives and moderates. SpeakerMike Johnson(R-La.) had vowed all week to press...
One possible path to avoiding a shutdown: Democrats could separate government funding from the debt limit. McConnell says Republicans would support that. The stopgap spending legislation includes bipartisan priorities, including $28.6 billion in disaster relief for Hurricane Ida and other extreme weather...
As the chancellor finished speaking – and it became clear that institutions werebeing hit with a huge national insurance billwith no movement on funding – many were incredulous. One toldTimes Higher Educationthat it was a “cataclysmic” situation; another spoke of large-scale job losses. ...
“Doing the job better ourselves, ultimately, is what it means. If we’re serving the consumer, the buck stops with us.” As of this writing, Congress has only been able to pass stopgap federal funding bills. What might the implications be for FDA or...
2025 — a topic that also features heavily in Lindner's paper. The budget wasinitially presented earlier this year, but left unanswered several questions on a funding gap of several billion euros. Based on the currently operating timeline, the budget should be finalized by the middle o...