Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) are rushing through a three-month spending bill Wednesday in a whirlwind development that will send Congress home through the election.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is barreling forward with a Wednesday evening vote on a six-month spending bill despite its expected defeat.
House Speaker Mike Johnson told Senate Republicans to strip the SAVE Act from the government funding legislation once the House passes the bill, senior aides from two different GOP U.S. Senate offices who support the SAVE Act being part of government funding efforts told Breitbart News on Thursday.
House Republicans across the ideological spectrum oppose Speaker Mike Johnson’s stopgap spending plan, putting the plan in peril.
A breakdown during negotiations on a government funding deal means that Congress may quickly find itself near a partial government shutdown.
The House passed a short-term spending extension only hours after the bill cleared the Senate, pushing the next shutdown threat to March.
The Senate advanced another short-term spending bill Thursday afternoon, which passed 77-18 over objections from conservatives.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said on Friday she is threatening to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) over his spending framework agreement with President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and congressional leaders have struck a spending framework deal that may avert a government shutdown; however, it may frustrate conservatives who want more drastic cuts.
The Senate passed Speaker Mike Johnson’s short-term spending plan late Wednesday night, sending it to President Joe Biden’s desk.
Matt Rosendale was silent after Speaker Johnson used Democrats to pass a stop-gap spending bill, which is the same thing he ousted McCarthy over.
The House passed a continuing resolution Tuesday to extend spending levels from a lame duck session last December by Democratic House and Senate majorities into 2024.
The House Freedom Caucus opposes a stop-gap spending bill that does not contain any border security or spending cuts.
The House is under new management but is operating under business as usual as it prepares to pass a continuing resolution (CR) that once again extends spending levels and policies pushed through by then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in last December’s lame duck session.
The portion of Americans against sending additional weapons to Ukraine is on the rise, growing by seven percent since May.
The House of Representatives will vote this week to beef up border security and keep the government open, sparking a showdown with an obstinate Senate desiring the status quo at the southern border.
Democrats will help House Speaker Kevin McCarthy avoid a government shutdown in exchange for $3.3 billion to accelerate the migrant inflow.
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.
A poll found that a plurality of Republican primary voters believe that the GOP would be blamed for a potential government shutdown.
House Republicans are looking to dismantle Biden’s expansive Catch and Release network through a Continuing Resolution (CR).
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” House Speaker Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) stated that he told Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) that the House will not pass another omnibus spending bill and the House will
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
There are over 7,500 earmarks totaling $16 billion lawmakers are trying to negotiate to be in a year-long “omnibus” spending bill that would expire at the end of the current fiscal year — September 2023.
Key lawmakers on Tuesday announced that they had struck a deal on the framework for funding the government through the end of the current fiscal year, with government funding set to run out on Friday.
Congressional leaders are steadily moving towards a potential government funding deal as the government soon faces the prospect of a government shutdown.
Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA), a member of the House Appropriations Committee, told Breitbart News in an exclusive statement that the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) should not be considered in a must-pass spending bill.
House Majority Whip-elect Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) will oppose any efforts to include the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) in the end-of-year spending bill, Breitbart News has learned.
Rep. Barry Moore is leading a group of nearly a dozen House Republican lawmakers in vowing to vote against a new government spending package unless President Joe Biden takes steps to improve southern border security.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Wednesday that many Republicans prefer a continuing resolution (CR) over an omnibus spending bill to prevent more runaway spending and rampant inflation.
Senate conservatives charged in a letter to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) that Congress should not pass a large omnibus bill until Republicans officially take back the House.
The House passed on Friday a stop-gap spending bill that would fund the government through mid-December. The bill also grants $12 billion for Ukraine aid and $3 billion for President Joe Biden’s Afghanistan refugees.
The Senate on Thursday passed a stop-gap spending bill that would fund the government through mid-December, providing $12 billion in Ukraine aid and $3 billion for facilitating Afghan refugees to the United States.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal,” Rep. Blake Moore (R-UT) said that while he has supported supplemental appropriations for Ukraine, the additional $12 billion in assistance in the continuing resolution isn’t “tied to specific metrics or outcomes” and “this
House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) announced on Tuesday night that GOP leadership would whip against a stop-gap spending bill, saying that it fails to address any of the crises unfolding under President Joe Biden’s watch.
Congressional appropriators released a stop-gap bill Monday night that would fund the government through mid-December, specifically earmarking $12.3 billion in aid for Ukraine and $3 billion for Afghan resettlement programs.
On Monday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “American Agenda,” Rep. Dan Meuser (R-PA) said that Republicans shouldn’t and he won’t vote for government funding unless it has improvements to border security. He also called for any continuing resolution to be extended
Republican Study Committee (RSC) Chairman Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) said Democrats will seek to stuff radical policies in a stopgap spending bill before Republicans likely take the House after the midterms.
Nineteen Senate Republicans voted Thursday night to fund the federal government without defunding President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates.
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) held the line on Thursday and kept Republicans nearly unanimously against voting for the stop-gap spending bill.
The House passed on Thursday a stop-gap spending measure to fund the government through February as Republicans fight to defund President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate.
