US EditionHouse advances $1.2T package with ICE funding after Republicans overcome infighting
Lawmakers advanced the spending package to avoid a shutdown, including $80 billion for Homeland Security and a new council enabling year-round E15 ethanol fuel sales.
- On Thursday, House Republicans advanced a $1.2 trillion spending package via rule vote, enabling debate and final consideration in the U.S. House of Representatives.
- An overnight compromise created an E15 Rural Domestic Energy Council to defuse up to 20 defecting lawmakers as they face a Jan. 30 funding deadline.
- The DHS bill allocates $80B, keeping funding flat and reducing some ICE removal funds while adding $20 million for body cameras and training for immigration enforcement agents.
- The procedural victory sets up two final House votes, one funding Defense, Education, Labor and HHS and another for DHS, after lawmakers unanimously approved striking disputed data-security language, leaving the Senate with a repeal decision on the Arctic Frost provision.
- House Speaker Mike Johnson said he expects the DHS bill to pass with Appropriations Committee Democrats' support, while Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., called the process a shared compromise as Republican leadership pushes a return to regular order.
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KULR-TVHouse advances spending bills to meet January 30 shutdown deadline
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The House of Representatives advanced its last four spending bills on Thursday morning. This move is comes about a week before the January 30 deadline to avoid another government shutdown.
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House narrowly tees up final votes on last 4 funding bills
The House advanced its final four appropriations bills Thursday, including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill, bringing the House one step closer to meeting the Jan. 30 funding deadline. The lower chamber voted 214-213 on the rule, which sets up debate and two separate votes on final passage later in the afternoon. One vote will [...]
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