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Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Now the real hard work begins. The House narrowly passed the Senate-amended budget resolution Thursday. That unlocks the budget reconciliation process that will be used to try to enact President Donald Trump’s legislative priorities. But there are certain to be a lot of pitched battles ahead on a range of details.
The House cleared the Senate-amended budget resolution, after Freedom Caucus holdouts said they got the necessary guarantees that the Senate will pursue higher spending cuts.
Louisiana Republican Mike Johnson won re-election as speaker of the House on Friday after laying out fresh plans for controlling federal spending. Following the vote, House Freedom Caucus members detailed a new list of demands, including restrictions on SNAP purchasing.
Lawmakers return from their long Easter recess with the House GOP potentially facing continued turmoil amid a packed pre-election schedule that would appear to leave dwindling chances for passing a new farm bill.
Congressional leaders are due to meet with President Joe Biden today as lawmakers face a Friday deadline for keeping USDA and several other departments funded.
Congressional leaders announced agreement Sunday on a new stopgap funding bill that would keep the government funded until March 1 for some departments and agencies, including USDA, and to March 8 for the rest.
Congress is staring at a possible government shutdown next weekend as House GOP leaders try to win passage of a stopgap spending bill that’s combined with a one-year extension of the 2018 farm bill.
Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan dropped out of the race for House speaker Friday after he lost a third floor vote and his colleagues subsequently voted in a private meeting against him continuing his candidacy.
The House is approaching another partisan face-off, this time over funding the government for the next fiscal year, after Republicans narrowly won passage of a defense authorization bill last week.
A group of hard-line conservatives are threatening to derail the fiscal 2024 appropriations process in the House, further clouding prospects for an agreement on spending with the Senate later this year, including legislation funding USDA and FDA.
