House quickly approves $1.7T spending bill, flees DC for Christmas break
The U.S. House of Representatives quickly approved a $1.7 trillion spending bill on Friday, funding the government until the end of next September in a win for President Biden and congressional Democrats. The House passed the more than 4,000-page spending measure mostly along party lines,…
Chip Roy blows up over $1.7T spending bill in fiery floor speech: ‘Destroying the United States’
Rep. Chip Roy on Friday blew up at the process that is forcing a quick vote on a $1.7 trillion bill that no one has read and said the Democratic rush job is destroying the country. “We’re spending money we don’t have,” the Texas Republican…
House Dem dumps on Democrat Senate for forcing rushed vote on $1.7T spending bill: ‘Unacceptable’
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., on Friday blamed the Democrat-led Senate in a for failing to pass any government spending bills this year and forcing Congress to rush in the days before Christmas to pass a $1.7 trillion bill to keep the government funded….
Most House lawmakers request option of remote proxy voting for Friday’s vote on $1.7T spending bill
When the House votes Friday on a giant $1.7 trillion spending bill, most members of the House might not even be in the Capitol. Nearly 230 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have filed letters allowing them to be away from the Capitol today…
House set to pass $1.7T spending bill over GOP objections
The House of Representatives is set to pass a $1.7 trillion spending bill on Friday over the objections of Republicans who unsuccessfully urged their Senate GOP colleagues to reject the bill. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., will push it through along with a short-term funding measure…
Congress gives itself a Christmas present: A huge funding boost in the $1.7T spending bill
One of the biggest spending increases in the $1.7 trillion spending bill that Congress is hoping to pass this week is funding for Congress itself. The bill includes across-the-board increases for every federal entity, including the legislative branch, which would see a 16.5% funding increase…
GOP scores win in $1.7T budget deal by cutting IRS funding
Congressional Republicans succeeded in slashing funding for the Internal Revenue Service in the negotiations over President Biden’s $1.7 trillion omnibus budget. Senate Republicans forced Democrats and the White House to cut more than $275 million from the IRS over the next year. GOP lawmakers demanded…
