House and Senate leaders rolled out a $467.5 billion, six-bill appropriations package Sunday afternoon, revealing where negotiators landed on a bevy of hot-button issues in final fiscal 2024 spending talks.
The package includes the Agriculture, Commerce-Justice-Science, Energy-Water, Interior-Environment, Military Construction-VA and Transportation-HUD measures. Lawmakers will try to pass the 1,050-page combo measure before the Friday at midnight deadline for four of the six bills under the most recent stopgap spending law. The Sunday afternoon release sets up a House vote as early as Wednesday afternoon under that chamber’s 72-hour rule, to give members a chance to review the legislation. The measure is being considered as an amendment to the initial House-passed Military Construction-VA bill, which the Senate passed later with amendments and sent back to the House. Read more