Congress once again passed a short-term funding patch to prevent a partial government shutdown, punting the ongoing spending fight for a few more days. The bill easily passed the House and Senate on Thursday, and is expected to be signed by President Biden ahead of the Friday midnight deadline to fund the government. Lawmakers are […]
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 […]
Congressional leaders struck a deal Wednesday to again avoid another partial government shutdown and are expected to vote on another stopgap bill by the end of the week. The fourth short-term funding patch would continue House Speaker Mike Johnson’s two-step approach by moving the funding deadlines back to March 8 and March 22. The deadlines […]
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 […]
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 […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson relied on Democrats again to pass another short-term funding measure to keep the government open on Thursday, but this time even fewer Republicans voted in favor of the legislation. Source link
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