House GOP funding patch clears first hurdle with Johnson confident measure will pass
A Republican-led short-term spending bill to avert a government shutdown deadline later this week cleared a key procedural ...
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Johnson's funding patch extends telehealth for 6 months; doc pay to come, Republican leadership promises
Saturday, House Speaker Mike Johnson released a bill that would fund the government through Sept. 30, avoid a partial ...
GOP funding patch boosts defense and deportations, cuts other programs
Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, the House’s top Democratic appropriator, called the funding patch a “power grab for the White House,” warning that the bill would allow Trump and his chief ...
Democrats weigh shutdown blame as Mike Johnson tees up funding vote
Senior Democrats reacted angrily to a spending patch Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) released over the weekend that would fund the government through September. The measure, crafted ahead of a Friday ...
Chuck Schumer caves, won’t vote to block GOP plan to avert government shutdown in dramatic U-turn
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) took up consideration of a measure in 2022 to shift to a watered-down “talking ...
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House GOP falls in line to pass budget patch, step away from fiscal cliff
Republicans’ stopgap spending legislation managed to win over conservative lawmakers who have long opposed such measures — ...
Washington Examiner3d
Democrats weigh shutdown blame as Mike Johnson tees up funding vote
Senior Democrats reacted angrily to a spending patch Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) released over the weekend that would fund the government through September. The measure, crafted ahead of a Friday ...
Politico5d
GOP funding patch boosts defense and deportations, cuts other programs
Johnson and Trump have spent weeks already trying to convince hard-right holdouts to vote for the spending patch — something hard-liners generally never support. They have argued they need the ...