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Proposed appropriations bill would practically double the size of the Border Patrol

by Kimberly Adams
Mar 22, 2024
Congress failed to pass comprehensive immigration reform, so it's using the appropriations bill to bulk up the Department of Homeland Security.
The $1.2 trillion spending package to be voted on by the House on Friday includes funds to hire 22,000 more Border Patrol agents.
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Housing advocates fight to maintain place in social-spending bill

by Amy Scott
Oct 25, 2021
Advocates had high hopes for the $320 billion initially included for housing, but the plan’s funding is being cut during negotiations.
President Joe Biden promotes his Build Back Better agenda in New Jersey on Monday. His plan to expand the nation's social safety net is being pared back by congressional negotiators.
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Congress returns to face funding deadline

by Kimberly Adams
Sep 9, 2019
A busy agenda, including a looming deadline for a spending deal, awaits lawmakers returning from their summer recess.
The House of Representatives and Senate have about a dozen working days to hammer out 12 separate spending bills. Above, the U.S. Capitol.
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Government shutdown 2019

Congress moves ahead with deal to avoid shutdown

by Kimberly Adams
Feb 14, 2019
President Trump says he will sign the spending bill, and declare a “national emergency” to build a border wall.
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Government shutdown 2019

Senate rejects rival Democratic, GOP plans for reopening government

by Associated Press
Jan 24, 2019
The Democratic plan received one more vote than the Republican proposal.
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Why budgets of federal agencies are “use-it-or-lose-it”

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Mar 27, 2018
Federal agencies are now trying to figure out how to spend billions of dollars in the next six months. President Donald Trump signed the $1.3 trillion spending bill Congress sent him last week, unleashing funding for fiscal year 2018, which is already half over. It’s a use-it-or-lose it situation for federal agencies. Click the audio player […]
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Weekly Wrap

We dodged another government shutdown

by Kai Ryssdal
Mar 23, 2018
It was a busy week in Washington.
President Donald Trump gestures to the $1.3 trillion spending bill passed by Congress early Friday, with Vice President Mike Pence, center, and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, left, at the White House.
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DACA students are not yet living the dream

by Reema Khrais
Mar 23, 2018
The $1.3 trillion spending bill doesn't include a permanent solution for people brought into the country illegally when they were children.
Dozens of immigration advocates and supporters attend a rally outside of Trump Tower along Fifth Avenue in August in New York City.
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After another shutdown, she's changing her definition of uncertainty

by Kai Ryssdal and Eliza Mills
Jan 22, 2018
Lisa Goldenberg, president of the Delaware Steel Co., on how "the bar's been pushed way out."
The U.S. Capitol at dusk on Jan. 21 in Washington, D.C.
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House backs temporary spending bill to avert a shutdown

by Associated Press
Dec 21, 2017
The wrap-up measure allows Republicans controlling Washington to savor their tax-package win this week.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD), and Rep. Michelle Lynn Lujan Grisham (D-NM) participate in a House Rules Committee meeting as negotiations continue on funding the government to avert a shutdown at midnight on Friday night, at the U.S. Capitol on December 21, 2017 in Washington, D.C.
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