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White House: Trump supports stopgap funding bill
The Senate is scheduled to leave town for a two-week recess Friday; Trump has to sign the bill by midnight Oct. 1 or a shutdown would begin.
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The Senate is scheduled to leave town for a two-week recess Friday; Trump has to sign the bill by midnight Oct. 1 or a shutdown would begin.
[jwp-video n=”1″] Once the House is back Tuesday, Democrats will once again turn their attention to border politics as the chamber considers two measures designed to improve the Department of
[jwp-video n=”1″] Medicaid, Export-Import Bank The 43-page stopgap contained numerous add-ons giving more funding flexibility to certain agencies and extending authorizing law: A package
[jwp-video n=”1″] Senate theatrics As work on the stopgap measure continued, Senate Democrats blocked a push by GOP leaders to advance four spending bills for the coming fiscal year.
[jwp-video n=”1″] However as noted in the letter, current projections show existing Medicaid block grant funds possibly lasting until March 2020, which may have given some negotiators pause.
As the Senate rushes to move fiscal 2020 spending bills, the House will consider a continuing resolution to keep the government running before the Oct. 1 fiscal year deadline hits.
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[jwp-video n=”1″] ‘Step up’ Ueland and other White House officials bristle when Republicans say they are not sure what Trump would support. But Missouri Sen.
The stopgap spending bill, needed to keep the government funded when the new fiscal year begins Oct. 1, will likely last until late November, according to a House Democratic aide.
on Sept. 12 the draft Defense, Labor-HHS-Education, Energy-Water and State-Operations bills, a package that would amount to a third of the 12 annual bills needed for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1.
[$960B deficit expected this year, more than $1 trillion next] Congress has yet to enact any of the 12 spending bills for fiscal 2020, and current government funding expires Sept. 30.
measure would add $324 billion to otherwise austere spending caps over the next two fiscal years, and avert cuts averaging about 10 percent to federal agencies for the upcoming budget year starting Oct. 1.
[jwp-video n=”1″] Another testy week The first partisan fireworks of the week are expected Tuesday, when the House is expected to vote to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary
[jwp-video n=”1″] Flaws in the system When the papaya outbreak was originally announced June 28, the FDA didn’t have enough information to pinpoint a source other than Mexico.
[jwp-video n=”1″] Smaller ambitions?
first meeting, on May 21, produced some initial hopes that a bipartisan deal could be reached relatively quickly, avoiding a breakdown in the appropriations process when the new fiscal year begins Oct. 1.
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But more than two years into Trump’s presidency, legislation that delivers on his campaign promise to spend at least $1 trillion on infrastructure remains elusive.
Agreed to 60-38 (R 41-8; D 18-29; I 1-1) on Jan. 16, 2018.
Passed 234-175 (R 223-1; D 11-174) on May 8, 2018.