Congress is racing toward a Friday night shutdown deadline, with leaders assembling the final funding package for fiscal year 2024 amid uncertainty about the timeline for passing the legislation. Funding for the departments of Homeland Security, Defense, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and State; the Internal Revenue Service; and general government and foreign operations… Read More
President Joe Biden and congressional leaders announced Tuesday that they had reached a government funding deal, signaling the close of a months-long saga that caused numerous shutdown threats. With a tight window left to consider funding bills, it is possible that there will still be a brief government shutdown over the weekend, however, it will… Read More
The House on Wednesday passed bipartisan legislation to force TikTok’s Chinese parent company to sell the wildly popular social media platform or face a ban in the U.S. H.R. 7521 – Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act would, If enacted, give ByteDance six months to divest from TikTok before app stores would start… Read More
Both the House and Senate are back in session today, after the Senate voted 75-22 on Friday to pass the funding bill to keep a slew of agencies afloat through September. The 1,050-page measure is a collection of six appropriations bills negotiated by House and Senate leadership and top appropriators in both parties and chambers. … Read More
The House on Wednesday passed a $460 billion spending bill to fund about half the federal government through the fall, moving to avert a partial shutdown at the end of the week and offering the first glimmer of resolution to bitter spending fights that have consumed Congress for many months. The 339-to-85 vote capped months… Read More
The House is expected to vote later Wednesday to pass a package of six government funding bills as lawmakers race the clock to get the legislation through both chambers before an end of the week shutdown deadline. The move comes as lawmakers face a pair of upcoming shutdown deadlines on March 8th and March 22nd… Read More
Congressional leaders on Sunday finally released long-awaited bipartisan bills (TEXT; SUMMARY) to fund parts of the government for most of the year, setting off a sprint to avert looming shutdown threat in less than a week. The weekend rollout entails six full-year spending bills to fund a number of agencies until early fall, including the… Read More
Neither the Senate nor the House are in session today, after the Senate on Thursday evening passed a short-term spending bill that punts this weekend’s shutdown threat to later in the month, but leaves questions about how Congress will fund the government through the rest of the year. Senators voted 77-13 to send the funding… Read More
Lawmakers plan to move quickly Thursday to pass yet another short-term government spending bill, delaying a shutdown deadline past the weekend to buy more time to finish delicate negotiations on funding the government. Congressional leaders reached a deal Wednesday on a short-term funding extension to head off a partial government shutdown on Saturday with a… Read More
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) said on the Senate floor this morning that negotiators are “very close” to a government funding agreement. This follows a Tuesday meeting with President Joe Biden and the top four congressional leaders as they scramble to send military aid to our foreign allies and avert a partial government… Read More
