NPR congressional correspondent Claudia Grisales contributed to this report. Democrats had said they would vote this week on an omnibus bill they were writing without direct Republican input, but scrapped those plans after making progress on a bipartisan deal over the weekend. The stopgap spending measure passed on a vote of 71-19. The House of Representatives voted last week on a bipartisan basis to pass a short-term funding bill, known as a continuing resolution, to extend funding through March 11. Congress had signed a different continuing resolution in September to avoid a shutdown. Congress then works to hash out what items will stay and what will go.īiden's proposal called for $5.8 trillion for the upcoming fiscal year, including $1.6 trillion in discretionary spending. The budget for the fiscal year is submitted by the president and outlines spending goals for the upcoming year. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and the panel’s ranking Republican, Rep.
"They want to raise the spending, bring more inflation, create more 'wokeism' in the legislation they want to pass through it and not even give members an opportunity to read it or see it," he said. The House-passed bill resulted from a bipartisan deal hammered out by the chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Later in the day, Hoyer told reporters that it was 'possible' the House might hold two separate votes, one on the debt ceiling and one on the continuing resolution to keep the government running. For example, House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy of California earlier this week slammed Democrats for trying to rush the package through Congress. There is some opposition to this larger spending plan, though. Key negotiators declined to go into details of the proposal or overall numbers but said earlier this week that there was bipartisan agreement on a framework. The Senate voted on Thursday to pass a stopgap bill to avert a shutdown at the end of the week ahead of a looming Friday deadline when government funding has been set to expire.
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