Congress’s new spending bill adopts a Trump-style approach to immigration spending, boosting funding for border enforcement and detention, but forgoes the big policy changes that Republicans said were needed to actually solve the migrant crisis.
Congress is struggling to pass a budget bill to prevent large portions of the federal government from shutting down at midnight. The House approved the bill late this morning and now it’s the Senate’s turn.
The House of Representatives on Friday passed a $1.2 trillion government funding bill with more support from Democrats than the majority Republicans, leading to a fresh threat by a hardline conservative lawmaker to oust Speaker Mike Johnson.
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 but Read More
This weekend, President Joe Biden signed a $1.2 trillion spending bill to avert a potential government shutdown. The Senate passed the more than 1,000-page bill early Saturday morning, with 74 senators voting in favor and 24, mostly-Republican, senators voting against. In a statement released by the White House on Saturday, Biden said that the “bipartisan […]
Biden held Congress to task in his remarks, calling on the House to pass a national security supplemental and Congress to pass a border security agreement.
Biden held Congress to task in his remarks, calling on the House to pass a national security supplemental and Congress to pass a border security agreement.
The Senate passed the budget in a 74-24 vote at roughly 2 a.m. Saturday morning.
Yuval RosenbergMarch 21, 2024Nearly six months into the fiscal year, and less than 48 hours before a government shutdown deadline,
Republicans were able to pull off a some major victories in the recently passed $1.2 trillion spending bill, averting a government shutdown.
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