National Security Supplemental Passes Congress

Yesterday’s meeting between President Biden and the “big four” congressional leaders appears to have yielded a tangible result in the form of another last-minute continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government funded. Under the emerging plan, six funding bills — Agriculture-FDA, Military Construction-VA, Energy-Water, Transportation-HUD, Interior-Environment, and Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) — would be punted […]

Lawmakers will return this week as leadership scrambles to figure out a path forward for keeping the federal government funded. Here’s an overview of where things stand as we approach the upcoming March deadlines.   What happened? Leadership was originally hoping to unveil text of the first fiscal year (FY) 2024 spending bills over the […]

With one week until the March 1 government funding deadline, multiple reports from Capitol Hill indicate that congressional leadership will announce next steps in the government funding process on Sunday. As of now, expectations are that appropriations leaders will either announce a deal on a pair of “minibus” spending packages that carry all 12 bills […]

Conservative lawmakers on the House Freedom Caucus are continuing their push for policy priorities and spending cuts as the March government funding deadlines approach. In a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), 28 House Republicans — led by Reps. Bob Good (R-VA) and Chip Roy (R-TX) — asked for an update on roughly two-dozen policy riders that […]

Lawmakers will return next week to confront the fast-approaching March government funding deadlines, starting with the March 1 date for Agriculture-FDA, Energy-Water Development, Military Construction-VA, and Transportation-HUD. While leadership has cited progress in the talks, another stopgap funding bill will likely be needed to keep the government funded beyond the March 1 and March 8 […]

Democrats scored a key victory in yesterday’s special election in New York’s 3rd congressional district to replace former Rep. George Santos (R-NY). Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY), who departed the House in 2022 to pursue a bid for the Empire State’s governor’s mansion, defeated local GOP county legislator Mazi Pilip by eight points in a race […]

In a party line vote of 214-213, the House voted yesterday to impeach Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, marking the first time a Cabinet official has been impeached since 1876. Notably, the presence of Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), who has been away from Washington receiving medical treatment, pushed the vote over […]

Early this morning, the Senate passed a $95 billion foreign aid funding bill before gaveling out for the chamber’s two-week Presidents’ Day state work period. The funding bill — which includes aid for Ukraine, Israel, and the Indo-Pacific, the Senate Banking Committee’s Fentanyl Eradication and Narcotics Deterrence (FEND) Off Fentanyl Act, and $400 million for […]

Both chambers will be back in session for the early part of this week, but senators are not expected to stick around too long. As of the current schedule, the Senate is slated to be in session until at least Tuesday to complete consideration of the foreign aid supplemental before leaving for the chamber’s Presidents’ […]

The Senate will be in for legislative business throughout the weekend and into part of next week as it looks to pass the foreign aid supplemental funding bill before leaving for the Presidents’ Day state work period. While Leaders Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Mitch McConnell (R-KY) were hopeful to reach a “time agreement” for expedited […]

The Senate will meet today to hold a procedural vote on the recently introduced supplemental appropriations package, but this vote is almost certain to fail amid opposition from the GOP conference. As such, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) intends to call up an amended version of the supplemental that only includes funding for Ukraine, Israel, […]

There is growing pessimism on the prospects of passing the recently-introduced supplemental appropriations package amid mounting opposition from Senate Republicans. As of now, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is still planning to move forward with the first procedural vote tomorrow, which will almost certainly fail given the lack of support in the upper chamber. House Republican leadership, […]