Congress includes major retirement overhaul in year-end $1.7T spending bill (2024)

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Did the Senate pass the spending bill? ›

Washington, D.C. – Today, the Senate voted 72-24 to send the final set of bicameral, bipartisan fiscal year 2024 appropriations bills to the President's desk to be signed into law.

Congress released a massive $1.2 trillion bill on Thursday to fund the rest of the federal government. The package, which runs more than 1,000 pages, would provide funding for the departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, State and the legislative branch.

Senator Collins was a lead negotiator of the bipartisan legislation. Washington, D.C. – Today, by a vote of 74-24, the U.S. Senate passed the second six-bill Fiscal Year (FY24) appropriations package.

Each year Congress undertakes to pass a budget and then, within the constraints set out by that budget, pass 12 appropriations bills that provide discretionary funding for the fiscal year, which begins October 1.

President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a $460 billion package of spending bills approved by the Senate in time to avoid a shutdown of many key federal agencies. The legislation's success gets lawmakers about halfway home in wrapping up their appropriations work for the 2024 budget year.

President Biden has signed a $1.5 trillion spending bill that funds the government through the end of September, a package that includes all 12 annual appropriations bills for FY 2022 along with $13.6 billion in support for Ukraine and refugees fleeing the Russian invasion.

Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024

This bill provides FY2024 supplemental appropriations to the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of State for activities to respond to the attacks in Israel.

The House March 22 voted 286-134 to pass the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2024, legislation that would fund all remaining federal agencies through Sept. 30. The bipartisan bill includes six appropriations bills, including one funding the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education.

On January 18, both the U.S. House and Senate passed a Continuing Resolution (CR) to extend current federal appropriations through March 2024 and avoid a government shutdown as lawmakers work to finalize Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 appropriations based on the nearly $1.6 trillion bipartisan topline framework agreement.

When was the last time the U.S. government passed a budget? ›

The Trump administration's budget proposal was released on March 11, 2019. On August 1, 2019, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019 (H.R. 3877) was passed by the House. The next day, on August 2, 2019, the bill was passed by the Senate and signed into law by President Trump.

To avoid a shutdown, Congress would need to pass the first four of the 12 appropriations bills through both chambers and get them signed by the President by the end of the day on March 1, and then enact the remaining eight bills by the end of the day on March 8.

The House voted on the spending package brokered by Johnson on Friday, passing the bill by a vote of 286 to 134. The bill needed 280 votes to pass. But while the legislation garnered enough bipartisan support to push it to the Senate, 112 House Republicans and 22 House Democrats voted against it.

After a measure passes in the House, it goes to the Senate for consideration. This includes consideration by a Senate committee or subcommittee, similar to the path of a bill in the House. A bill must pass both bodies in the same form before it can be presented to the President for signature into law.