House and Senate negotiators reached an accord to unlock final fiscal 2024 appropriations bills after nailing down the final defense and non-defense spending limits, party leaders announced Sunday.
The deal will allow for the total level of spending laid out in last year’s debt limit agreement, with $886.3 billion for defense and $772.7 billion for non-defense programs. The latter figure includes spending agreed upon but not written into the legislative text of the debt limit law. Lawmakers tweaked the mix of offsets and budgetary accounting to hit the $69 billion non-defense “side deal” target, which comes on top of a “base” funding level in the law totaling $703.7 billion. Read more