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Authorize a $886 billion spending budget for national defense programs including: [20] [21] A 5.2% pay increase for service members of the armed forces. [20] [21] Procurement of up to 13 Virginia-class submarines. [22] [23] Authorize the sale and transfer of defense articles and services relating to the implementation of the AUKUS partnership ...
The Senate is on track to vote on the country’s massive annual defense spending bill Wednesday, with signs that it will pass smoothly despite Democratic objections to language involving ...
On February 29, the House passed a short-term continuing resolution extending the funding deadline to March 8 for the first four appropriations bills in the November and January CRs, and to March 22 for the rest. [47] The bill passed the Senate as well on March 1, and was signed into law by President Biden later the same day.
President Joe Biden signed the bill into law later Saturday morning. The passage of the package came after President-elect Donald Trump torpedoed a bipartisan agreement struck earlier in the week.
With a government shutdown narrowly avoided late Friday into Saturday morning, the House and Senate sent a funding bill to President Joe Biden's desk. An initial bipartisan deal was tanked earlier ...
The authorization bill is the jurisdiction of the Senate Armed Services Committee and House Armed Services Committee and determines the agencies responsible for defense, establishes recommended funding levels, and sets the policies under which money will be spent. [3]
Congressional negotiators are facing roadblocks over divisive, culture war amendments on a 1,800-page National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that addresses core U.S. priorities on national ...
The third type of appropriations bills are supplemental appropriations bills, which add additional funding above and beyond what was originally appropriated at the beginning of the fiscal year. Supplemental appropriations bills can be used for things like disaster relief. [7] Appropriations bills are one part of a larger United States budget ...