House Speaker Mike Johnson again suffered a wave of defections from members of his party to pass a stopgap bill, moving Congress a step closer to beating the Friday shutdown deadline. The same as with the stopgap in January, House Democrats bailed out Mr. Johnson to pass the new two-step funding patch on Thursday. It […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson said he wants to “turn the page” on the current spending fight and shift focus to next year’s appropriations cycle ahead of a vote Thursday to keep the government open. Congress is slated to vote on its fourth stopgap bill to avert a partial government shutdown and could put an end […]
Congress is nearing a deal on another short-term funding patch to beat Friday’s shutdown deadline and give Congress more time to pass spending bills. The four bills due by Friday, which include funding for the VA, agriculture, transportation and energy and water, still need more work than can be finished by Friday, according to a […]
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stretched the Constitution beyond its breaking point with her pandemic-era voting rules that allowed lawmakers to vote on bills without even being present. Judge James Wesley Hendrix, in his groundbreaking ruling, also said a spending bill passed using the proxy-voting system was passed illegally, since […]
Washington is once again facing a potential shutdown. Funding for the federal government will run out in early March unless the House and Senate can bridge their differences and pass spending legislation. At the same time, the city of San Francisco seems to have few problems doling out huge amounts to well-connected activist groups and […]
NEW YORK — The National Rifle Association and its former longtime leader were found liable Friday in a lawsuit centered on the organization’s lavish spending. The New York jury found that Wayne LaPierre, who was the NRA’s CEO for three decades, misspent millions of dollars of the group’s money on pricey perks for themselves. LaPierre, […]
Much of the millions of dollars in environmental justice funding from President Biden’s COVID-19 relief is paying for the salaries, benefits and travel expenses of community organizations’ staff, according to congressional documents shared with The Washington Times. An investigation found that some money has funded the development of a rap song for elementary school students, […]
Congress has made little public progress since January on its quest to hit a March 1 deadline to partially fund the government, and the three dozen members of the House Freedom Caucus are demanding an update. Members of the conservative grouping requested an update from House Speaker Mike Johnson in a letter Wednesday on the […]
NATO’s top leader said 18 of the 31 alliance members are expected to spend at least 2% of their gross domestic product on defense this year, a sixfold increase since 2014 when only three NATO countries met the target. Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said NATO members in 2024 will invest a combined total of $380 billion […]
Both chambers of Congress are locked in fierce battles over spending legislation. A “supplemental” package has found bipartisan support in the Senate after the removal of flawed border and immigration provisions. However, its $95 billion price tag—$60 billion of which would go to Ukraine—means there will be stiff resistance in the House. Meanwhile, Congress is […]
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