House Advances 4 Spending Bills as McCarthy Vows Funding Stopgap to Avert Shutdown

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : He then chided the Republican minority for waiting so long to take action on the 2024 spending plan.
55% : Speaker McCarthy united his caucus in considering four appropriations bills, which he hopes to leverage in passing a CR laced with border security measures.
55% : Moments after the Sept. 26 vote, Mr. McCarthy said he would bring a continuing resolution (CR) to the House floor by the end of the week to temporarily extend government funding as the budgeting and appropriations process continues.
52% : "We have four bills before us here in the House of Representatives, four bills that, when combined with the [Military Construction and Veterans Affairs] bill that we passed in July, would fund upward of 75 percent of our discretionary spending of government," Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) said when debating the bill on the House floor.
51% : The bills put forward for debate were the Department of Homeland Security at $91.5 billion, the Department of State at $52.5 billion, the Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration at $25.3 billion, and the Department of Defense at $886.3 billion.
51% : The measure would fund the government through Oct. 31 but impose an overall 8 percent cut in non-defense discretionary spending.

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