The Senate passed a second “laddered” short-term spending bill known as a continuing resolution (CR) that funds government agencies through March. The House now has until Friday to vote on a bill to avert a government shutdown.
Senators passed the bill by a bipartisan majority of 77-18 in a CR vote Thursday afternoon. The House is scheduled to consider the bill late Thursday night.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D.Y.) said, “The government will not shut down on Friday. Because we have worked together on both sides, the government will remain open. Services will not be interrupted. We will avoid unnecessary disaster.” Ta. They gathered in the chamber Thursday ahead of the vote.
“Averting a government shutdown is very good news for all Americans, especially veterans, parents, children, farmers, small businesses, and many others who would have felt the pain of a government shutdown.” '' he said.
The previous CR, passed by Congress in November, provided funds to federal agencies with dual expiration dates. The first set of funds expires on January 19th, and the second set expires on February 2nd. The proposed CR would follow the same structure as the current funding bill, but would extend the deadlines for government spending to March 1 and March 8.
CR will continue funding four spending bills until March 1: Agriculture, Rural Development, and the Food and Drug Administration. Energy and water development. military construction, veterans affairs. transportation, housing, and urban development.
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Schumer and McConnell (Getty Images)
In addition, CR will allocate funds in eight remaining spending bills until March 8th. Defense; Financial Services and General Government. Homeland Security; Interior, Environment. Labor, health and welfare, education. the legislature; and the state, foreign operations.
Several amendments to the CR were rejected by senators, including Sen. Rand Paul's proposal to freeze aid to Palestine until the Hamas hostages are freed.
The purpose of setting two separate deadlines is to: block parliament He blocked passage of a comprehensive “omnibus” spending bill that was widely opposed by Republicans.
However, a staggered approach may not exclude the possibility of an omnibus. Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), a member of the Senate Budget Committee, said in an interview on Fox News Digital this week that Schumer and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) could support him. He said that he believed that his sexuality was high. Another omnibus is expected this year, as only three of the 12 spending bills approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee have passed.
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Mike Johnson have until Nov. 17 to reach some kind of agreement on government funding to avoid a partial shutdown.
“This is all Schumer's orchestration because Schumer wants to do an omnibus,” Scott said. “He and McConnell have been doing omnibuses for years, and they're both basically putting everything they have into it.”
“There is no commitment yet to actually negotiate, vote on, or amend individual spending bills,” he said. “With four months left until the end of the fiscal year, Schumer still won't introduce a spending bill.”
In December 2022, Congress passed the following bill: $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package That includes $858 billion for national defense, $787 billion for non-defense domestic programs, and more than 7,200 sites costing more than $15 billion.
Earlier this month, Schumer and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) agreed to a $1.66 trillion top line for government spending this fiscal year.
The budget consists of $886 billion allocated to national defense and $704 billion earmarked for non-defense spending.
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Saturday, September 30, 2023, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. (Anna Rose Leyden/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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According to Johnson, what was achieved was Republican concessions This includes an additional $10 billion in cuts to mandatory IRS funding (totaling $20 billion) and the Biden administration's continued reduction of $6.1 billion in coronavirus-related funds.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson previously said the new deal would see further cuts to discretionary spending to offset the deal.
Schumer said Wednesday that the Senate will take up Biden's request for a $110 billion national security package that would send billions of dollars in aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. The measure is expected to be combined with increased border security measures to curb the crisis at the southern border, but no agreement has yet been reached among lawmakers and White House officials.
