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The current stopgap spending law sets a two-tiered deadline for the twelve annual appropriations bills, with a March 1 deadline for four of the bills and March 8 for the remaining eight.
The legislation extends funding for agencies covered under the four appropriations bills that were set to lapse after Friday to March 1, and funding covered under the remaining eight bills that are poised
The chamber voted 68-13 to end debate on the motion to proceed to the shell legislative vehicle for the stopgap spending measure, which would run to March 1 for four of the dozen annual appropriations
One option under consideration is a stopgap that would go until March 1, which would allow ample time for appropriators to get their work done.
The exact level of defense spending in a full-year CR remains unclear; it could be flat-funded or subject to a 1 percent haircut, depending on the White House budget office’s eventual interpretation.
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., speaks during a news conference on abortion rights in the Capitol on Nov. 1.
Nearly 1 in 4 active-duty servicemembers — or about 286,800 people, not counting their family members — are beset by food insecurity, according to the most recent Pentagon survey of the force.
After the last shutdown, estimates were upward of 1 million contractors, many of them lower-paid employees, never got paid for over one month of lost work.
James Lankford, R-Okla., that would automatically provide continuing appropriations if spending bills for the new fiscal year have not yet been enacted by Oct. 1.
Instead, the House was preparing to leave town Thursday afternoon for the long August recess having passed only one of the 12 bills needed by Oct. 1, when the new fiscal year begins.
The bipartisan agreement bars Biden from issuing another extension of the current pause, which is set to end by Sept. 1.
They said the 3 percent defense spending increase allowed in the debt limit deal for the coming fiscal year, and a 1 percent increase allowed the following year, amount to cuts after adjusting for inflation
The bill would suspend the debt limit until Jan. 1, 2025, pushing it past the November 2024 elections. The debt limit was last raised in December 2021 to $31.4 trillion.
the pressure on, reiterating in a letter to lawmakers Monday that the government could run out of cash and "extraordinary measures" used to stay under the $31.4 trillion debt ceiling as soon as June 1.
But Republican strategists maintain that Johnson is running a tight campaign, reflected in a Marquette Law School Poll released Wednesday that showed Johnson leading by 1 point over Lt. Gov.
Schmitt is the fundraising leader, with $3.6 million in receipts and $1 million left in the bank as of July 13.
The original omicron variant, BA.1, now only makes up 3 percent of sequenced cases, and the more transmissible BA.2 makes up 68 percent of circulating cases.
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
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