House and Senate spending negotiators have not yet announced an agreement on a second round of funding bills, including one for the Department of Homeland Security, a key issue prolonging the debate, officials said Monday. told FOX News Digital.
The bill, which would provide funding for the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Labor, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Financial Services, general government, legislative branch, national and diplomatic operations, is scheduled to be introduced on March 22. However, disputes have arisen between the two. Republican negotiators and President Biden.
President Biden convened House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana, left) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) for a meeting at the White House. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images | Anna Rose Leyden/Getty Images | Craig Hudson/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Three sources, including a senior House leadership aide, confirmed to Fox News Digital that the text for the six bills will not be released on Monday, as previously expected.
A source close to the Senate Republican leadership said the disagreement between the Biden administration and the Republicans negotiating the funding bill centered on border control provisions in the DHS funding bill.
President Biden speaks with Border Patrol agents while walking along the U.S.-Mexico border fence in El Paso, Texas, on January 8, 2023. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
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Officials said five of the measures have been “substantially completed.” However, the DHS bill has delayed the entire process.
From right, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-Washington), and the late Dianne Feinstein (California) on the Senate Appropriations Committee, discussing military construction, veterans affairs, and mark up expenditures of related agencies. Act of 2024 and the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2024 (June 22, 2023, Dirksen Senate Office Building). (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call, via Getty Images)
With no firm release date set for the language of the various funding bills, Congressional negotiators run the risk of not passing a bill by Friday’s deadline. This would trigger a partial shutdown of government agencies, except for the parts of government funded in the last bill.
On March 8, the first group of funding bills passed the Senate. The $460 billion package included provisions for the Departments of Agriculture, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Department of Justice, Department of Commerce, Department of Energy and Water Development, Department of the Interior, and Department of Transportation and Housing.
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The bill is making its way through Congress as the national debt recently surpassed $34 trillion and is approaching $34.5 trillion.
The March 8 and 22 funding deadlines were agreed to in a continuing resolution late last month and are the fourth stopgap measure since the original Sept. 30 deadline for the 2024 budget.
