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Congress reconvenes next week to start working on stopgap funding legislation on which President Joe Biden’s signature is required before Oct. 1 in order to avert a partial government shutdown.
Even Republicans in Congress have not griped too loudly about Biden’s approach, mostly dinging him for not getting more lethal weapons in Ukrainians’ hands faster.
However, the White House has been rhetorically supportive of Congress passing a new Russia sanctions bill, calling it a move that would strengthen U.S. diplomatic efforts with Moscow by showing how
“If Congress sends him a bill, he’s happy to sign it,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said last week. “They haven’t sent him a bill on that yet.”
But Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Menendez touted the language he offered as an amendment to the fiscal 2022 defense policy measure as an example of the types of sanctions Congress might
House Democrats’ original longer-term debt limit bill would have suspended the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022. The House passed it in late September on a mostly party-line vote with Rep.
All the “no” votes came from Republicans, but passage wasn’t really in doubt after Democratic leaders agreed to drop language in the original House-passed version that would have suspended the debt ceiling
Congress and the White House might be forced to deal with the debt limit before the August recess. Treasury Secretary Janet L.