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</p> </p> </p> He said Democrats were discussing the potential need for another stopgap bill to keep the government open and they would make a decision Monday about how to move forward if Trump has
</p> And the two lawmakers, rather than cave to the attack from the White House, threw out the anchors, absorbed the explosion and watched as the State Department authorization bill was scuttled by the
President Donald Trump on Wednesday vetoed the fiscal 2021 defense authorization bill, making good on repeated vows to do so and setting the stage for an eleventh-hour override vote in Congress.
</p> The bill expressly avoids funding for FBI headquarters construction, which Trump has been seeking to keep at the current location on Pennsylvania Avenue.
The Senate cleared the spending bill Monday. </p> House Interior-Environment Appropriations Subcommittee Chairwoman Betty McCollum, D-Minn., lamented the absence of the monument provision.
</p> As the two sides talked, caucus members remained engaged, trading ideas and paper without choosing a corner. </p> “We became the Switzerland,” New York Rep.
Watch as CQ Roll Call’s John Donnelly discusses some of the big takeaways on defense spending in the massive year-end spending bill that Congress passed before leaving town for the holidays.
</p> A frequent Trump critic, Democratic Rep. Bill Pascrell of New Jersey, called the actions “pardon abuse” in a post on Twitter.
</p> Overall, the bill would boost spending on Congress by about $251 million over current law.
</p> The Friends of the American Latino Museum issued a statement at the time calling Lee’s decision to block the bill “insultingly dismissive, condescending, and misguided.”
</p> The massive bill will then go to the Senate for one final vote before heading to Trump’s desk for a signature.
</p> Tucked deep inside the 5,593-page omnibus bill is bipartisan legislation authored by both sets of Illinois and Missouri senators and seven House lawmakers from the two states that would reverse an
</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> Under the House procedural maneuver, adoption of the rule for floor debate on the big spending package would automatically send the new stopgap bill to the Senate, which would
</p> Some Democrats were also frustrated with leadership’s decision to begin votes less than six hours after the massive bill was released just before 2 p.m. Rep.
</p> Pelosi praised the move in a Monday statement, noting that this year’s defense authorization bill also calls for the renaming of bases that were named for Confederates.
</p> The House passed the bill on a 329-65 vote Sunday night, and the Senate cleared it by voice vote about two hours later.
</p> The coronavirus relief provisions were being added to a giant $1.4 trillion omnibus spending bill for fiscal 2021 that House lawmakers were set to vote on Monday.
</p> If the Fed lending deal holds, lawmakers could clear a nearly $1 trillion COVID-19 aid package as well as the underlying $1.4 trillion fiscal 2021 appropriations bill before stopgap funding for federal
</p> The Senate passed the bill on a voice vote after several potential objections fell away.
The $900 billion coronavirus relief bill that would extend economic lifelines to thousands of struggling small businesses, 14 million unemployed Americans and 17 million renters facing eviction could hit