government funding

Joe Biden was “largely absent” from the government funding negotiations in Congress this week, according to the Hill.

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said that the government funding bill that passed the House wasn’t an improvement on the original bill, but his goal was ensuring there wasn’t a shutdown. Host Sara Sidner asked,

President-elect Donald Trump stepped in to provide a path to potentially avoid a government shutdown, just 24 hours after a deal negotiated by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) collapsed.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Thursday faced the most serious threat to his position since 163 Democrats voted to save his gavel back in May.

The government funding bill includes a one-year extension of the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), an agency that funds organizations that censor conservative media including Breitbart News.

House leaders unveiled a 1,547-page continuing resolution — including at least tens of billions of dollars in additional goodies — just hours before a vote to keep the government open past the Friday deadline.

Government funding expires Friday at midnight, but congressional leaders are still finalizing an expanding compromise to punt the deadline and staple on hundreds of billions of dollars in unrelated additional spending.

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.

Massachusetts welfare recipients have been using their EBT cards while on tropical vacations to Hawaii, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and other trips thousands of miles away from their home state, an investigation by the Boston Herald revealed. 

During an interview with ABC News on Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said that the only way to keep the government funded is through a bipartisan bill and responded to questions on whether he would support a

U.S. Representative Tony Gonzales (R-TX) says he is ready for a budget showdown if any discussions on funding the government later this month do not include tighter border security measures. The Congressman spoke to Breitbart Texas during a recent border visit he hosted that included Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) and 64 other Republican legislators.

House Republicans are hammering out their differences over spending plans for 2024 while Democrats and the media blame them for the looming shutdown caused by the establishment’s unpopular demands for more migration and the war in Ukraine.

Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-AR) told Breitbart News that Congress has an opportunity to “close the southern border” and keep government open by passing a stopgap funding bill.

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 coalition of moderates is quietly working on a government funding deal to avert or minimize a shutdown and leave House conservatives out to dry once again.

Affiliates of the abortion giant Planned Parenthood are among the recipients of millions of dollars from the federal government aimed at preventing teen pregnancies.

Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) is cutting millions in taxpayer funding to a pro-life program that supports counseling and housing for pregnant women.

Planned Parenthood performed 374,155 abortions, according to its annual 2021-2022 report, titled “Relentless.”

The crybabies at the government-funded PBS have joined the crybabies at the government-funded NPR in boycotting Twitter.

The Canadian government headed by PM Trudeau has announced changes to funding applications after funding a virulent antisemite. 

Groups who have received millions from the Canadian government are demanding an Ottawa venue cancel an event featuring Dr Jordan Peterson. 

Half of the likely votes in the United States said they disapprove of the Democrat-led $1.7 trillion, 4,155-page omnibus spending bill that was rammed through Congress last month to fund the government. At the same time, most agree it is a “disaster” for America.

More than half of the members of the U.S. House of Representatives voted remotely Friday for the $1.7 trillion government spending bill, claiming in proxy voting letters they could not be present to vote because of the “ongoing public health emergency.”

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.

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Hallie Jackson Reports,” Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) reacted to the prospect of Republicans using funding bills to get concessions on things like money for the border or defunding the expansion of the IRS under the

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

The United States is currently under “invasion” at its southern border, according to Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), who called to reject funding a government that refuses to secure the border, pass his discharge petition to preserve the policy that helps border officials regulate the inflow of illegal immigration, and have the Lone Star State “stand up” in the fight to protect the border.

House Republicans on Tuesday are reportedly attempting to block government funding unless the financing of vaccine mandates is defunded.

The Republican House leadership is whipping votes Thursday against funding government until February 18 over concerns the spending bill also finances coronavirus mandate enforcement measures.

The federal government will run out of money on Friday amid a jammed Senate schedule in December that may further delay the passage of the reconciliation package into next year.

The House Freedom Caucus formally informed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Tuesday that its members will not vote to fund the federal government while the Biden administration maintains vaccine mandates on government and private sector employees.

School districts that lost student enrollment during the pandemic are facing the reality those students will stay with their new education choices.

When the Senate returns later this month it will have a “to do” list, including pandemic relief and funding the government.

The White House changed its voicemail message to blame congressional Democrats for failing to pass a budget over partisan squabbles on immigration.

The last time the government shut down, stocks actually rose 3.1 percent. That’s because there’s likely to be no big effect on the economy.

Bipartisan congressional negotiators agreed Sunday to fund Planned Parenthood through September in a $1.070 trillion package that would help Congress avoid a so-called “government shutdown.”