All posts tagged "Budget"

WASHINGTON — “I agree with Musk,” far-right Freedom Caucus member Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) told Raw Story on Wednesday, when asked about Elon Musk’s forceful opposition to Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” the package of tax and spending cuts the House sent to the Senate before Memorial Day — and for which Burlison voted.

Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX billionaire, is the world’s richest man. He left the Trump administration last week, after four months leading attempts to slash government budgets and spending through his so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.

On Tuesday, Musk shocked Washington by turning on the Republican budget measure. ...

A long-simmering Republican Party feud is threatening to derail President Donald Trump’s agenda.

Representatives from either ideological end of the GOP U.S. House conference, hard right and moderate center, told Raw Story on Wednesday work on the GOP’s contentious spending bill, covering tax and spending cuts and enshrining Trump's hardline immigration policy, remains a long way from done.

“This one isn't real close,” said Andy Harris (R-MD), chair of the hard-right Freedom Caucus. “It’s not ready for prime time.”...

By David Morgan and Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic and Republican leaders in the U.S. Congress on Sunday unveiled a short-term spending bill that would avert a partial government shutdown and keep federal agencies operating into March. The agreement aims to avert short-term chaos and buy more time to craft the complex spending legislation that funds government activity. Government agencies that oversee transportation, housing, and other services are due to run out of funding by midnight on Friday and would have to scale back activity if new funding is not signed into law. The ......

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. congressional leaders are expected to announce a deal on Sunday that aims to avoid a partial government shutdown later this month, U.S. media reported. U.S. media outlets including CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and Punchbowl News, citing unnamed sources, reported that leadership in the House of Representatives and the Senate had reached a deal on overall funding levels for the federal government. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson and Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer have signed off on the dollar amount of overall federal spending for this fiscal year, the ......

After a disappointing round of 2023 off-year elections, Republicans in Democratic districts are begging their far-right colleagues to shut up about fringe abortion laws, the New York Times reported Friday.

The 2023 election results Tuesday revealed to 18 Republicans, who claimed blue districts in 2022, that voters aren't happy about the Supreme Court ruling that eliminated abortion rights.

States across the country have passed or blocked measures that protected the rights of political leaders and left decisions up to the patients and doctors.
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Washington (AFP) - Less than two months since the US federal government narrowly avoided running out of funding, the deeply divided Congress once again faces a tight deadline to approve a new budget -- just one week. Neither the Democratic-controlled Senate or the Republican-led House of Representatives has passed a bill to extend government funding, which expires at midnight next Friday into Saturday. Without an agreement by November 17, the world's largest economy will instantly begin pumping the brakes: 1.5 million government employees will go without pay, most federal facilities including ......