Work Resumes on Spending Bills after House Speaker Elected
After electing Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) as speaker of the House on a party-line vote of 220-209 last week, the chamber has resumed work to pass spending legislation for fiscal year 2024 that stakes out conservative priorities ahead of negotiations with the Democrat-controlled Senate.
The House is scheduled
The federal government is currently operating under a stopgap spending bill
Congress is also now weighing the Biden administration’s supplemental funding requests of about $100 billion
The latter request, submitted
The security request includes $1.2 billion for development of Israel’s Iron Beam missile defense system, $144 million for nuclear nonproliferation initiatives in Ukraine, and $563 million for research, development, test, and evaluation projects in support of Ukraine.