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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) hopes to avert a looming partial government shutdown by giving lawmakers more time to negotiate the details over appropriations bills.

Eighteen House Republicans joined Democrats on Wednesday in killing an amendment to the 2024 Department of Defense Appropriations Act that would have barred taxpayer dollars from funding Pentagon-sponsored “Pride Month” celebrations.

House GOP efforts to advance government funding vehicles that would exert the leverage of the party that controls just one half of one-third of government have thus far failed, and with a Sept. 30 deadline just days away, several top conservatives are concerned that the Republicans might have blown it.

House Republicans passed on Thursday legislation that would fund the military and veterans affairs as part of a strategy to put pressure on President Joe Biden to negotiate a future spending bill.

On Monday’s “Sean Hannity Show,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) stated that there will be policy riders attached to the appropriations bills for the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security and that one rider will

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) responded to President Joe Biden’s earlier cancellation of the China Initiative by stating that the appropriations process is one point of leverage to get the

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) argued that any appropriations bills passed out of the House of Representatives should be accompanied by a continuing resolution that would revert spending levels to the

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) stated that the best way Congress can fix the economy is to get back to the regular appropriations process, argued that we have to take back COVID

House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy told Breitbart News exclusively that all options are on the table when it comes to how a Republican majority next would pressure Democrat President Joe Biden to achieve the GOP “Commitment to America” agenda and roll back the Biden agenda.

Sen. Braun confronted HHS Sec. Xavier Becerra at a hearing about how the Biden administration is promoting transgender surgeries for children.

The bill to offer relief from coronavirus and fedeal appropriations for 2021 includes $65 million to help fish in western states.

The fractured House Democrat Conference amid a burgeoning fight between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her Democrats’ left flank led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), along with disagreements between some Senate Republicans and the Trump administration, threaten to complicate upcoming spending and debt ceiling negotiations between Congress and the White House.

A Tory MP has slammed Labour politicians for “politically correct claptrap” and “idiocy” after linking Chef Jamie Oliver’s “jerk” rice to slavery and accusing him and other “white people” of profiting from Black culture.

A Labour member of the shadow cabinet has attacked the celebrity chef Jamie Oliver for so-called cultural “appropriation” after he launched a “punchy jerk rice” product.

The U.S. Senate is going to abandon the omnibus appropriations bill this year in favor of individual spending bills to fund the government, according to Mick Mulvaney. Mulvaney, who is the director of the Office of Management and Budget, told host

“Build the wall, build the wall” is a chant that rings on in the minds of supporters of President Donald J. Trump — his cornerstone promise to build a wall along the U.S. southern border. So when will these Trump-faithful see this promise realized?

The House has approved a more than $1 trillion spending bill to fund the government through September by a vote of 309 to 118.

Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney told the White House Press Corps that while a government shutdown is “not desirable” it could become a reality come September if the appropriations process is not repaired.

In an interview that aired on “CBS This Morning,” House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) told show co-host Norah O’Donnell the upcoming budget legislation required to prevent a government shutdown will include money to the Department of Homeland Security for border

The Texas Legislative Budget Board (LBB) adopted a constitutional spending limit on Thursday that curbs budget growth to eight percent over the next two years.

A federal district court held Thursday that the Obama administration’s payments to insurance companies under Obamacare are unconstitutional, since Congress has declined to pass spending bills funding those payments.

Interest rates on President Barack Obama’s federal debts will double over the next decade, forcing American taxpayers to spend $776 billion on extra interest payments by 2026, according to a new report by the Congressional Budget Office.

House GOP and Democratic leaders just inserted a sweeping surveillance bill into their 2,009-page, late-night 2016 budget deal.

Congress may unveil the $1.1 trillion “omnibus” spending bill late Monday night.

Senior conservatives in Congress are rallying around a bill from Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-AL) that aims to block funding for President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty while forcing the administration to start enforcing immigration laws. Sessions has issued a lengthy statement explaining the problem with executive amnesty and reminding his colleagues of Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Reince Priebus’ pre-election promise to block funds for Obama’s amnesty.