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Congress · 117th Congress

Schumer: Senate closing in on omnibus amendments deal

It would extend the program to 2027 and provide $1 billion to help ensure new claims can still be accepted, although that’s short of the $3.6 billion advocates had been seeking to fully erase the budget

Congress · 117th Congress

Senate reaches deal on $10 billion in COVID-19 spending

Senators left town last week undecided on whether to use $1 billion of the $10 billion for international aid to help increase the global vaccination rate or to spend it all on domestic needs.

Congress · 117th Congress

House readies relief package for restaurants, other industries

The negotiators couldn’t agree on enough offsets for appropriating another $5 billion in foreign assistance, but they were debating whether to take approximately $1 billion from the domestic funds

Congress · 117th Congress

Senate close to COVID-19 aid deal; global funds in question

But Romney said negotiators were still debating whether to take $1 billion of the $10 billion slated for HHS and instead give that to the United States Agency for International Development for foreign

Congress · 117th Congress

Congress cuts humanitarian spending despite billions for Ukraine

supplemental humanitarian funding for Ukraine is excluded, the baseline fiscal 2022 spending level for humanitarian accounts covered by the State-Foreign Operations title comes in at $6.8 billion — a $1

Congress · 117th Congress

Partisan skirmishes threaten swift omnibus timetable

Hoyer said he hopes that debate over supplemental aid won’t slow consideration of the omnibus, which is already five months overdue from the Oct. 1 start of fiscal 2022.

Opinion · 117th Congress

Biden always behind the curve

In this week’s new Gallup Poll, taken Feb. 1-17, Biden’s job approval came in at 41 percent approve to 55 percent disapprove.

Campaigns · 117th Congress

Senate ratings show three Democrats in toss-up races

That doesn’t bode well for the party this year when Biden’s victory in five of the battleground states was by less than 2.5 points, including three by less than 1 point. 

Congress · 117th Congress

Democrats push climate proposals amid internal fights

“I would rather approach it from an ‘it makes no sense for me from a business standpoint to run diesel engines anymore, because there’s an electric engine sitting there that No. 1 I don’t go deaf

Congress · 117th Congress

Democrats, Republicans agree to short-term debt limit increase

benefits scheduled for Oct. 20 could be delayed by five days.Food stamp benefits due Oct. 25 would be delayed by a week.Federal employee salaries due to be paid Oct. 29 could be postponed by 11 days.Nov. 1

Policy · 117th Congress

Federal courts boost request for judicial reinforcements

That includes concerns about which president would pick those judges, the roughly $1 million annual cost each new judgeship would bring, and whether any measure should make bigger changes, particularly

Policy · 117th Congress

Ethiopia violence stokes alarm in Washington about civil war

Some 1 million people in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray area are experiencing famine-like conditions, and an estimated 5.2 million of the region’s 6 million people need some form of humanitarian aid,

Congress · 117th Congress

Foreign aid for Afghanistan in flux after Taliban takeover

“We need Congress and the White House to be working with us right now on what happens Sept. 1 and forward,” said Rita Sharma, vice president of U.S. programs and policy advocacy at CARE, a major

Congress · 117th Congress

Hurricane Ida highlights infrastructure priorities

Cassidy, who advocated for including coastal resiliency funding in the bipartisan infrastructure bill that passed the Senate by a 69-30 margin on Aug. 10, said Monday that he was among the more than 1

Congress · 117th Congress

Top bipartisan group relaunches $110 billion technology bill

[jwp-video n=”1″] Unlike political rancor that accompanies most domestic spending legislation, bills targeting spending on U.S. technology, research and development appear to have broad bipartisan