By a vote of 286-134 over conservatives’ objections, the House passed a $1.2 trillion spending package late Friday morning avoiding a partial government shutdown. The bill now goes to the Senate, where it is expected to pass. The 1,000-plus-page package of bills includes funding for the State, Education, Defense, Labor, Homeland Security, and Health and […]
Lawmakers were anxiously awaiting the details of the final spending package for fiscal 2024 to be revealed on Wednesday after the White House and Congress leaders hammered out an eleventh-hour deal. The package includes the troublesome Department of Homeland Security funding that delayed the deal, and lawmakers will now have little time to comb through […]
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has bowed to pressure from Senate Republicans and will send a Ukraine aid package to the Senate soon. The aid bill will not resemble the $95 billion aid package the Senate passed in February. Instead, it will probably be in the form of loans or lend-lease structure to make it […]
In this business, one can find oneself traveling down rabbit trails. A promising bit of news may turn out to be not nearly as engaging or important as advertised, or it may be outdated. That sends a writer back to the drawing board. This happened Monday afternoon. A story I thought was worth investigating […]
President Biden on Friday implored governors to put pressure on their representatives in Congress to pass a $95 billion package of U.S. aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan that has stalled in the House. “I urge all of you if you agree with me — and many of you do — to urge your congressional […]
The Biden administration announced it is readying a “major sanctions package” against Russia in response to the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, according to national security spokesperson John Kirby. No details were given on the package, which is hardly surprising given that there’s very little left of the Russian economy that hasn’t […]
The Senate passed a $95.3 billion foreign aid package on Tuesday with no funding for border security. The bill would give $60 billion to Ukraine, $14 billion to Israel, $9 billion in humanitarian assistance for Gaza, and nearly $5 billion for the Indo-Pacific, including Taiwan. But House Republicans, who had demanded that the immigration […]
This morning, the Democrats in the Senate, combined with a pack of Biden Republicans, forced through the combined foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. (But mostly Ukraine.) Even with that accomplished, the prospects for the bill look dim at best in the House. It’s unclear if there would be enough GOP support to […]
The Senate early Tuesday passed a $95.3 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, pushing ahead after months of difficult negotiations and amid growing political divisions in the Republican Party over the role of the United States abroad. The vote came after a small group of Republicans opposed to the $60 billion for Ukraine […]
CORRECTION, Feb. 9, 2024: Sens. John Thune and Mike Rounds represent South Dakota. An earlier version of this article had a different state. A bill to send millions of dollars to Ukraine and Israel made its first step Thursday on what is potentially a long road in the Senate. A bill that contains only foreign […]
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