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Federal budget and spending bills for @POLITICO . Co-author of @POLITICOPro ’s Budget & Appropriations Brief. Tips: cemma @politico .com.
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At least two Capitol Police officers have been SUSPENDED, per
@RepTimRyan
, the House appropriator who oversees Capitol Police funding.
Of the two suspended officers, one took the now infamous selfie and the other wore a MAGA hat while directing rioters.
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BREAKING: Trump to shift another $3.8B toward a border wall, hitting several popular weapons programs, National Guard.
The reprogramming comes after his budget requested just $2B from Congress, with administration officials assuring that $8.4B is already headed toward a barrier.
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BREAKING: Senate Dems have reached an agreement on a $3.5T budget resolution
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@ossoff
, in his first hearing, argues that working class nurses and teachers would be cut out of stimulus checks if efforts to limit eligibility are successful.
As
@heatherscope
and
@sarahnferris
reported, House Dems have decided against doing that, limiting only high earners.
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Awful news.
A second police officer has died by suicide following the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol:
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NEW: Manchin tells reporters that he thought Schumer’s speech preceding final passage of the debt limit measure was “inappropriate.”
Thune also said he confronted Schumer on the floor to tell him the speech was out of line.
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Last night, Trump cited $154M for the National Gallery of Art as a reason why the coronavirus bill is *wasteful,* although the $$ was included as annual gov't funding.
His FY21 budget literally requested $147M for the National Gallery of Art, and millions more for its repair.
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🚨 CBO estimates that Biden's bill will add $367B to the deficit over a decade.
Summary of Cost Estimate for H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act
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10 Republicans just voted to reopen the Agriculture Department
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Hello! This is Hazel and we will be on maternity leave together until the end of June, which is very exciting.
We look forward to watching all the hot approps action from the sidelines!
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Here are the 12 Republicans who voted for the bill to reopen HUD and DOT
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2016 National Teacher of the Year
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Rep. Kay Granger, the top House GOP appropriator who helped negotiate the bill, joined Republicans who opposed it.
Asked if she could explain why she voted against it, Granger told
@sarahnferris
: “No, I can’t.”
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Today, I tried to interview a principal twice. The first time, she had to cut our conversation short to buy lunch for a group of students. The second time, she had to leave because the school went into a lockdown while we were on the phone. Still thinking about her typical day.
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Foreign aid spending AND the money for the Kennedy Center, the National Gallery of Art, etc., which he cited as “wasteful” in conflating government funding bills with Covid relief.
His fiscal 2021 budget literally requested those amounts.
Someone has just made a great point to me: much of the foreign spending the president is complaining about was in his budget request to congress.
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BREAKING:
@SenShelby
, the top Republican on the Appropriations Committee, won’t seek re-election for a seventh term.
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New: Trump plot to “steal” $7.2B for border wall puts GOP in another pickle
Shelby: “I wish they’d get the money somewhere else, instead of defense.”
Alexander: “He should not spend money that Congress hasn’t appropriated using the emergency authority.”
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“When some in the White House questioned the legality of blocking funds to Ukraine … U.S. officials said Mulvaney told staff that he had determined that the money could be turned on and off with no legal consequence.”
Mulvaney emerges as a key facilitator of the campaign to pressure Ukraine:
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Cassidy amendment to prevent checks from going to prison inmates fails, 49-50.
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NEW: The Ukraine scandal shows how the Trump administration has learned how to weaponize federal money:
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House GOP bill to undo Democrats’ IRS funding would cost $114B, per CBO:
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Have spent about two years on the budget beat and I’m not sure I can recall a time when Graham spoke at length or actually attended a Senate Budget hearing?
Want to know what's at stake this election? If we lose the Senate, socialist Bernie Sanders will become Budget Committee Chairman. If we hold the Senate, and I am re-elected, I will be Budget Committee Chairman.
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🎉 Shutdown officially thwarted 🎉
Senate passes the CR, 69-28.
Happy stopgap to all those who celebrate.
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A *~personal news~* tweet: after 5 years on the education beat, it’s time to switch it up. I’ll be covering appropriations and the federal budget with
@JAscholtes
. Excited for a new challenge! Please say hi if you’re on the Hill!
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Lankford amendment aimed at preserving the Hyde amendment is adopted, 50-49.
MANCHIN joins Republicans on this one.
Illustrates the current impossibility of removing Hyde from annual spending bills in the Senate.
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Warren: "It is difficult to imagine a worse choice to head the Department of Education."
#DeVos
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BREAKING: Top House and Senate appropriators have reached a bipartisan deal on funding allocations, or 302(b)s, that will inform an omnibus spending package to avert a government shutdown on Dec. 11, per a House Democratic aide. 🦃
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Meanwhile, millions will lose jobless benefits tomorrow while their future aid hangs on these two demands that just simply weren’t made known by the White House.
After spending some time with President
@realDonaldTrump
today, I am convinced he is more determined than ever to increase stimulus payments to $2000 per person and challenge Section 230 big tech liability protection.
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NEW:
@BernieSanders
, who will lead the Senate Budget Committee, tells me he’s prepared to "use reconciliation in as aggressive a way as I possibly can.”
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The new sweetgreen outpost in Cannon is off to a bit of a rocky start.
But someone ordered a salad under the name “Jeb Bush,” which these poor salad distributors were just forced to call out 😂
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Collins: "I will not, I can not vote to confirm her as our nation’s next secretary of education."
#DeVos
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Michael Moore urging marchers to call their member of Congress Monday to reject Betsy DeVos as education secretary
#WomensMarch
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Democrats *could* use reconciliation three times in the next two years...
Congress never adopted a fiscal 2021 budget resolution, and it still can pass one for fiscal 2022. Then there’s fiscal 2023.
👀... Budget Reconciliation: The Basics | House Budget Committee Democrats
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MSD student Sam Fuentes, breaking with emotion on stage, just took a break to throw up.
“I just threw up on international television and it feels great!” she yelled.
Then she led the crowd in singing happy birthday for her deceased classmate.
#MarchForOurLives
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🚨 Minibus PASSES the House, 286-134, with 101 Republicans voting in favor.
The House is now voting on the $1.2T funding package.
Republicans hoping for at least 100 votes, far less than a majority of the majority, with strong Dem support.
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DeVos flies on her own private plane for government business & foots the bill for her and her security detail
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Senate PASSES the budget resolution Democrats can use to speed passage of Biden’s $1.9T coronavirus plan, 50-51, with VP Harris breaking the tie.
The House could take it up as soon as today. Biden meets with House Democratic leaders and committee chairs later this a.m.
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This bill is also a rebuke to AG Barr, limiting his ability to shift money around, prohibiting the use of federal cash for his travel outside of the D.C. area and nixing tens of thousands of dollars for his “reception and representation expenses.”
House Dems release a fiscal ’21 spending bill for DOJ that would condition law enforcement grants on the elimination of: racial profiling & implicit bias, excessive force & chokeholds, “no-knock” warrants in drug cases & more:
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“We will no longer be hunted down and treated like prey by politicians,” said Marjory Stoneman Douglas junior Sarah Chadwick, her voice breaking.
The crowd is chanting, “vote them out!”
#MarchForOurLives
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The debt deal applies PAYGO to executive actions, which some Republicans are touting as a big win.
But the text confirms that OMB can easily waive it, effectively neutralizing it.
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Schumer scores a major win with Senate parliamentarian, who says he can recycle the fiscal ’21 budget resolution to deploy reconciliation for a second time.
Could have *huge* repercussions for the use of reconciliation moving forward:
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The Senate PASSES the omnibus, 68-29.
And to all a good night 🎅
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Senate Dems want info on vetting after Trump's education appointees shared "racist, bigoted" views on social media:
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HBCU expert says DeVos' statement is an “inaccurate and a whitewashing of U.S. history"
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House Dems release a fiscal ’21 spending bill for DOJ that would condition law enforcement grants on the elimination of: racial profiling & implicit bias, excessive force & chokeholds, “no-knock” warrants in drug cases & more:
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Murray, Murphy, Smith, Jones, Warren and others have all expressed support for the folks in red today or said arming teachers is one of the “dumbest” ideas they’ve ever heard
There’s a sea of
@MomsDemand
folks here for the Senate HELP hearing on ESSA. They’re protesting the use of federal funds to arm teachers. Many have been sent to an overflow room.
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NICE I’LL TAKE IT
Good book wall. Plants. Not crazy about couch positioning but easily offset by bold use of ceramic pineapple. 9/10
@caitlinzemma
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“I am not the president … unfortunately,” Sanders says, prompting laughter.
“It was a joke! A bad joke.”
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BREAKING: House passes the four-bill national security package, 280-138.
The full $1.4 trillion spending deal is now off to the Senate.
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Hoyer: "This is our debt. This is America’s debt … Some of it relates to greater spending promoted by both sides of the aisle. For any one of us to get up and say, ‘It’s your debt.’ It’s America’s debt and America pays its bills."
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Parliamentarian recap:
❌ Drug pricing limits for those with private insurance
✅ Medicare portions of the prescription drug plan
✅ Senate Finance energy tax stuff, including electric vehicle tax credits
✅ Methane fee, EPW provisions
❓Capping insulin costs
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At 8 months pregnant, this is my last big approps vote for a while.
Will I return next year to the same funding levels? Probably?
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NEW: Sen. Rob Portman expected to oppose GOP effort to scrap Obama accountability rule
#ESSA
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The $1,200 stimulus checks are arriving. People are mostly spending them on food:
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NEW: Eli Broad urges Senate leadership to vote against Betsy DeVos:
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The White House is calling off any shutdown prep because Senate passage of the $1.2T funding package is imminent.
Once this passes, Congress will have officially funded the government for real, more than five months into the fiscal year. It took four CRs to get here.
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NEW: Biden set to ask Congress for at least $20B in new aid for Ukraine and other international needs this afternoon, w/
@paulmcleary
and
@laraseligman
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Senate PASSES Biden’s $1.9T coronavirus relief bill, 50-49, to applause from Democrats.
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Breaking — the shutdown cost the U.S. economy about $3 billion in forgone economic activity that won’t be recovered, CBO estimates
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Nothing like an email from the Department of Education asking if I’m still interested in processing a FOIA request that I filed in 2017.
Yes, I am.
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In a break from his opponents, Bloomberg’s Social Security plan doesn’t endorse popular proposals to boost the program’s revenue by increasing contributions from people with heftier wages:
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Breaking: Lowey, Shelby, Leahy and Granger say they’ve reached a deal “in principle” on fiscal 2020 appropriations.
It seems to be happening, people!!!!
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Johnson had fought for additional IRS cuts, but didn’t get them.
Instead, existing IRS cuts ushered in by the debt limit law will happen over one year, not two.
GOP also secured more than $6B in Covid rescissions.
But on the whole, the deal retains what Dems wanted.
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Trump has signed the CR 🎉 Happy Thanksgiving break to all 🦃 🍷
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Around 2 a.m., lawmakers released a 4,000+ page omnibus that would boost military funding by about 10% and fund domestic programs at more than $772B, including nearly $119B, or a 22% increase, for veterans’ medical care.
The highlights and what’s to come:
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“We’re having a hell of a time getting information from Capitol Police leadership."
.
@RepTimRyan
update: says it’s still two Capitol Police officers suspended, fewer than 20 instances involving officers under investigation.
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NEW: Pelosi and Schumer say they’ve filed a joint budget resolution to kick off the reconciliation process
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NEW: Rep. Kay Granger, the top Republican on the House Appropriations Committee, has tested positive for Covid.
Her spox says she already received the first dose of the vaccine last month and is currently asymptomatic.
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CBO will soon release a report, requested by Sen. Bernie Sanders, that will make a persuasive case for including the $15 minimum wage in reconciliation legislation, according to a senior Dem aide.
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DeLauro: McCarthy’s pledge to cap fiscal ‘24 spending at ‘22 levels “kills the 2024 government funding process before it has even started, all but guaranteeing a shutdown.”
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Sanders: "I want children in the third grade to know, no matter what their family income … you’ll be able to get a college education."
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it’s the shortest and longest day of the year haha get it
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Somehow, 6 months of maternity leave is over. Thanks to Politico for providing that time.
Please bear with us as 27,000 emails load and we re-learn what markups are.
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Schumer also said BIDEN will attend Senate lunches tomorrow
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NEW: The Trump administration is slow-walking $250 million in military assistance to Ukraine, annoying lawmakers and advocates who argue the funding is critical to keeping Russia at bay
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"When presented with a nominee who says that public education is a 'dead end' ... people take it personally."
#DeVos
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Rules humor —
Rep. Ryan Zinke congratulates new Rules Chair Michael Burgess on his gavel.
Burgess: "I ask that you hold your applause until the end of the week and we'll see how it goes."
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🚨 The deal in principle 🚨
According to a source familiar:
— keeps non-defense spending roughly flat for fiscal 2024, increases by 1% in 2025
— defense set at level proposed in Biden's fiscal 2024 budget, modest 3% increase
— non-enforceable funding targets after 2025
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This is the most married I’ve ever felt.
@billkuchman
, shrieking in the basement over the
#Bills
game.
Me, upstairs, watching Bridgerton.
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Biden is nominating SHALANDA YOUNG to be deputy director of OMB.
Young is staff director of the House Appropriations Committee and was a trusted aide to
@NitaLowey
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Remember when
OUR GREAT USA WANTS & NEEDS STIMULUS. WORK TOGETHER AND GET IT DONE. Thank you!
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NEW: Shelby, the Senate’s top GOP appropriator, is endorsing Shalanda Young for OMB director should Neera Tanden’s nomination fall apart.
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BREAKING: The House Democratic Caucus has elected
@rosadelauro
as the next House Appropriations chair, 148-79.
DeLauro’s win represents the pinnacle of a 30-year career in Congress. She’ll replace long-time friend and retiring Chair Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.).
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Omg it’s over he signed the bills happy holidays everyone we made it 🎁🎉🎄🎅🏼
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Meanwhile, government funding runs out on Nov. 21, the Senate is facing a likely impeachment trial and Trump won’t sign domestic bills unless there’s an agreement on border wall funding, per
@ericawerner
“The point here is that Democrats will now have a chance to vote on the bipartisan spending bills that they claim to be fighting for,” a GOP aide said.
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The 95 Dems who voted against the Senate’s emergency border aid package
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DeVos says she told Marjory Stoneman Douglas student newspaper reporters that she'd like to come back sometime and talk to them
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It's official — congressional leaders have reached a funding deal on half a dozen annual spending bills alongside a stopgap that pushes two shutdown deadlines later into March:
w/
@JAscholtes
@Olivia_Beavers
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DeLauro says the White House’s decision to block Fauci from testifying before House appropriators today leaves "no doubt it is just frightened of oversight.”
Cole, a Republican, agrees that Fauci should have been allowed to testify.
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Well I already accidentally swore in front of children on Bring Your Child to Work Day so today is going well.
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Trump has SIGNED the CR, according to a White House spokesman.
And with that, I’m going to bed.
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NEW🚨Senate Dems will likely EXCLUDE a debt limit hike in their budget resolution.
Instead, they’re eyeing a must-pass CR as the next opportunity for action, relying on GOP support.
Major political implications:
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.
@alfranken
says DeVos' confirmation hearing "is the most embarrassing hearing that I've ever attended."
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The Congressional Progressive Caucus wants the Homeland Security spending bill pulled from the floor.
House is supposed to take it up next week as part of a $1.4T, seven-bill minibus.
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