Congress Races to Close Out 'Last Major Item' for 2022
‘Tis the season for budget crunches on Capitol Hill. Once again, government funding runs out Friday night and lawmakers face a deadline to prevent a...
Biden Aims to Cut Homelessness by 25%
On any given night, more than half a million people are homeless in the U.S., and on Monday the White House released a new plan to reduce that number...
With Short-Term Spending Bill Done, Congress Faces a New Deadline
The Senate crossed a couple of big items off its year-end to-do list Thursday night, passing the annual defense policy bill and a stopgap measure to...
Senate Scrambles to Prevent a Shutdown and Pass Defense Bill
With government funding set to run out Friday night, the Senate is still working to pass a one-week stopgap spending bill to avert a partial shutdown...
Lawmakers Say They Have a Spending Deal, but There's More Work to Do
Congressional negotiators announced Tuesday night they had reached a bipartisan deal on the framework for a full-year spending plan. “We’ve made the...
Congress Prepares Short-Term Funding Patch to Avoid a Government Shutdown
House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) on Tuesday released the text of a stopgap bill extending federal funding from December 16...
Congress Scrambles for a Spending Deal
Government funding expires Friday and appropriators working toward a full-year spending bill reportedly remain billions of dollars apart on non...
Biden Announces $36 Billion Rescue for Teamster Pension Fund
President Joe Biden on Thursday announced the largest rescue package for a pension plan in U.S. history. The nearly $36 billion infusion for the...
As Funding Crunch Looms, Democrats Prepare Plan B
The House passed a pair of big bills Thursday, but bipartisan talks on funding the government through the rest of fiscal year 2023 remain at an...
What’s in the $858 Billion NDAA for 2023
After months of negotiations, lawmakers on Tuesday evening released the text of the annual National Defense Authorization Act, which would support...