By Kevin Fracking (Associated Press)
Washington (AP)-On Sunday, Congress leaders came with a package of six bills to determine the level of full-year spending for some federal agencies, a step ahead in the over-over-over-over-over-over-over-over-over-over-conversion process by sharp political partitions between the two parties as well as a long political partition between the House Republican.
The weekend was designed to meet the House of House to give at least 72 hours to MPs to study a bill before voting. And it is a promising indication that the legalists will avoid a partial shutdown that will kick for agencies on Saturday at 12:01 pm, covered under the bill, such as Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Transport, Justice and others.
Congress leaders are expected to complete the votes on the package this week and the remaining six annual expenses to pass them before the March 22 deadline are in talks on bills. The price tag for the package on Sunday is approximately $ 460 billion, which represents less than 30% of the Congress’ discretionary expenditure to approve this year. The package being still negotiated includes defense expenses.
House speaker Mike Johnson highlighted some major policy and won for conservatives, even many of his GOP colleagues considered changes inadequate. Some House Republican hoped that the possibility of shutdown could avail more concessions than Democrats.
Overall, non-defense expenses will be relatively flat with last year’s bills in this year’s spending bills, despite the increase in inflation, and the President Joe Biden originally demanded the dialect demanding a few $ 70 billion.
Johnson said in a prepared statement, “House Republican won the leading orthodox policy, dismissed leftist proposals, and made a sharp cut to important agencies and programs for President Biden’s agenda.”
Earlier this year, Johnson and Senate Magority Leader Chak Shumor announced an agreement at the top-spending level for this year’s discretionary expenses, more than $ 1.6 trillion. But the agreement did not address the possible policy mandate kept within the bills. It is from here that the conversation in recent weeks has focused focusing.
The Democrats closed most of the policy riders, which were sought by the House Republican. For example, he defeated the FDA’s attempt to reverse the decision, which allows the abortion pill mifiprystone to be sold only in retail pharmacies rather than hospitals, clinics and medical offices. Democrats also stated that the bill will fund a nutrition program for women, infants and children with a completely low -income, known as WIC, providing about 7 billion dollars for the program, an increase of $ 1 billion from the previous year.
“The Democrats worked hard to protect the housing and nutritional programs from cuts, and excluded harmful provisions, which would further limit access to women’s health, or withdraw the progress made to fight climate change,” Shumar, DN.Y., Said in support of law.
However, the House Republican was able to win some policy victory. For example, a provision, will prevent the sale of oil in the strategic petroleum reserve for China.
Another provision strengthens gun rights for some giants. Under the current law, the VA will have to send the name of a beneficiary to the FBI’s national immediate criminal background investigation system, whenever a fedausari is appointed to help manage the benefit of someone. This year’s expenses prevents the package VA from broadcasting that information until a relevant judicial authority is the rule that the beneficiary is a threat to himself or himself or others.
Nevertheless, some of the more conservative members of the House GOP have been important for bills, and many have voted against the short -term expansion Congress passed last week, which survived a shutdown and allowed to continue the conversation.
“We all promised that when we woke up here, we would not do this nonsense.” “American people have demanded responsible expenses and border security over the years, but we fail them. When we focus on the calls of our components to curb the useless expenses, secure the boundaries, and defeat the bureaucracy that targets bureaucracy? ,
Last week short -term expansion was the fourth in recent months. The vote to approve it was 320–99, but the House Republican was divided, with 113 in support and 97. The Senate approved the expansion, 77–13.
Votes are being postponed to spend the bill five months after the budget year starts.