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.
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Tall order for lawmakers to finish spending bills next week
of these factors have led to speculation that lawmakers may be forced to punt final action for a week with a short-term stopgap measure, lining up the first package of bills currently expiring March 1
Ultraconservatives criticize Turner over ‘threat’ statement
Turner issued a statement Thursday indicating the Intelligence Committee voted 23-1 to make its information on the purported threat available to all House members.Turner also said the committee worked
Huge gap on spending bill policy riders as time dwindles
However, the significant partisan differences over policy riders will leave more work than usual for leadership, posing the biggest threat to passing final appropriations by the March 1 and March 8 deadlines
GOP stand-alone Israel aid bill rejected in the House
It would provide $1.2 billion for the Iron Beam defense system, $3.3 billion to procure additional weapons through the Foreign Military Financing program and $1 billion to develop artillery and critical
First roadblock to March stopgap measure removed
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
March stopgap funding bill unveiled ahead of Friday deadline
Congressional leaders released text of the new short-term patch that would continue current spending rates for federal agencies through March 1 and March 8, keeping the same bifurcated deadline structure
New stopgap plan would extend funding deadlines to early March
House and Senate leaders have agreed to extend temporary government funding in two batches, through March 1 and March 8, according to a source familiar with the plan.
Pressure mounting on Austin as GOP senators launch inquiry
Austin has been hospitalized since Jan. 1 due to complications from surgery to treat prostate cancer, his doctors disclosed Tuesday.
Short-term stopgap bill appears likely as funding talks drag
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.
Austin treated for prostate cancer, Pentagon reveals
Austin III has been hospitalized since Jan. 1 due to complications from surgery to treat prostate cancer, according to a statement from his doctors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center that
Pentagon’s handling of Austin hospitalization roils Congress
And as of Monday — one week after Austin’s Jan. 1 admission — a series of questions remain about who in the Biden administration and Pentagon knew what, when, regarding the top DOD civilian’s condition
Senators to punt on border, fly home after FAA, nominations
Any nominees that have not been confirmed by Jan. 1 would have to be resubmitted by the president next year. Briana Reilly contributed to this report.
Border, supplemental aid deal looks likely to slip to January
On Friday, the Pentagon told lawmakers the last $1 billion in security assistance would be delivered at the end of the year.
House sends final NDAA to Biden’s desk
biggest in two decades, as well as an increase in troops’ basic allowance for housing payments.The bill would add $1.2 billion more than the White House requested for defense procurement and nearly $1
Senate will be in next week as border talks pick up steam
Another issue that will keep senators from flying home is the need to take up a three-month extension of Federal Aviation Administration programs which would otherwise lapse on Jan. 1.
Top Senate appropriators detail full-year stopgap impacts
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.
War supplemental stymied in Senate over border holdup
Democrats added $4 billion in extra military aid to Ukraine to last into next November, and $1 billion in funding to shore up security at U.S. nonprofits and religious institutions facing renewed threats
Backstop in debt limit law flips script on spending endgame
If all appropriations bills are not enacted by Jan. 1, the law’s statutory caps would reset to fiscal 2023 levels minus 1 percent.
US arms aid to Israel tests whether humanitarian law applies
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Defense Appropriations ranking member Betty McCollum of Minnesota, wrote to President Joe Biden to urge him to call for a cease-fire to protect the roughly 1 million