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↵↵Last week, the House passed the six fiscal 2026 spending bills that cover most federal spending but have yet to become law. These include the Defense and DHS money measures.
As such, the work of both the House and Senate Defense appropriations bills for fiscal 2025 will be largely for naught when a CR is enacted.
"There was no clear chain of command on July 13, and the Secret Service had no clear plan for how the AGR building would be covered," Peters said.
Mike Johnson of Louisiana, elected Wednesday as speaker of the House, brings a defense-focused background to the role as a member of the powerful House Armed Services Committee.Â
"We’re waiting to get the final negotiation from RMI [Republic of the Marshall Islands]," House Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman, R-Ark., said in an interview.
By comparison, the House and Senate defense authorization bills would endorse upping that figure to about $778 billion, enough to increase the total amount by about 5 percent — or approximately 3
Afterward, talking to reporters in the White House, he was even more direct.
That's because it means the bill can be drafted from the outset to command support from most House members (because of vacancies, 216 is the magic number for assuring victory) and a filibuster-proof majority
House Armed Services Committee spokesman Claude H.