Two roads diverged in a lame-duck spending endgame
​Congress is about to buy itself about three months’ worth of extra time to work out a final spending agreement for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1.
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House moves to bolster Secret Service after assassination scares
The agent fired a gun in the direction of the rifle at about 1:31 p.m. and agents found a loaded rifle with a scope and an obliterated and unreadable serial number, along with a digital camera, a backpack
Departing GOP leader dominates Senate earmark rankings
McConnell says he’s already helped deliver more than $1 billion in federal funds toward the project over the years, and the fiscal 2025 dollars are all but guaranteed given the $218 million is also included
Interior-Environment spending bill passes House in late-night surprise
The relatively tiny Council on Environmental Quality would see its funding cut by nearly 80 percent, down to just $1 million.
House lawmakers to start summer break Thursday morning
The outlook is similarly grim come September, the focus will shift to passing a stopgap funding measure to avoid a partial government shutdown when the new fiscal year begins Oct. 1.
Earmarks in House spending bills increase over last year’s versions
More than picking up the slack are the Commerce-Justice-Science bill, which contains just over $1 billion in earmarks, about 68 percent above last year’s version; the Interior-Environment bill, also at
Key results from primaries in Kentucky, Georgia, Oregon and Idaho
She had $1.9 million in her campaign account on May 1, compared with Bynum’s $340,000. Dexter wins 3rd District: Physician and state Rep.
Eight questions for elections in five states on Tuesday
DeSpain outraised Courser, $273,0000 to $27,000, through May 1. But Hoyle raised $1.3 million. Will Salinas get a rematch? Democratic Rep.
First fiscal 2024 appropriations package heads to Biden’s desk
Under the terms of last year’s debt limit suspension and spending caps law, fiscal 2025 appropriations are slated to rise just 1 percent above the topline totals agreed to for the current budget cycle.
Fiscal 2024 spending finale starts to take shape
Democratic priorities The $7 billion for WIC is a $1 billion increase over the fiscal 2023 enacted level, meeting the requested level identified late in the appropriations process by the Biden administration
Hill leaders announce deal to unlock final spending bills
Funding for agencies covered by the Agriculture, Energy-Water, Military Construction-VA and Transportation-HUD bills would be extended from March 1 through March 8, joining the Interior-Enviroment and
Critical spending decisions await Tuesday White House meeting
Andy Harris, R-Md., that panel’s subcommittee chairman, is insisting that in exchange for adding about $1 billion to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children food program
Biden, ‘Big Four’ to meet as spending talks sputter
Each side blamed the other Sunday night for the lack of progress on the four appropriations bills that have a March 1 deadline — Agriculture, Energy-Water, Military Construction-VA and Transportation-HUD
House to return next week as GOP expects spending bills to pass
For their part, House GOP leaders expect to be in Washington next week to continue negotiations with the Senate over a four-bill appropriations package whose funding expires March 1.
Rep. Owens weighs intercepting a House Appropriations seat
Utah connection Owens is a staunch conservative who was first elected in 2020 by just 1 percentage point over Democratic incumbent Ben McAdams in the Salt Lake City-area district.Â
GOP should take ‘handcuffs’ off speakerless House, Rep. Kaptur says
By Sept. 30, the end of the 2023 federal fiscal year, the House had passed only four of 12 key appropriations bills to operate the U.S. government through fiscal 2024, which began Oct. 1, each at reduced
Maintenance backlog grows at national parks as funding tightens
listing the needs at all 63 major parks and some of the smaller units tells the story: Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite National Park and the National Mall in Washington, D.C., each has more than $1
Stopgap funding bills hung up in both chambers
At the same time, it wasn’t clear their Senate counterparts would have any better luck when that chamber votes on cloture at 1 p.m. Saturday.
House gets gears moving for four fiscal 2024 spending bills
If McCarthy is unable to pass a stopgap with just Republican votes, passing the Senate’s bill appears to be the only way for him to avoid a government shutdown Oct. 1, or at least keep it relatively brief
Four spending bills readied for House floor amid stopgap uncertainty
His manager’s amendment, which also would be slipped into the base text upon adoption of the rule, would make an additional $1 billion in cuts. mostly from State Department diplomatic programs and contributions