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For the third year in a row, Congress isn't buying the White House's request nor Democrat lawmakers’ pleas for more money to help agencies move away from legacy systems more quickly.
The $1.4 trillion omnibus spending package is packed with provisions that set spending and policy priorities for a variety of federal agencies in 2021.
A provision in the 2021 omnibus spending package gives federal employees a full 12 months to repay the payroll taxes that have been deferred from their paychecks this fall. The spending package also silently endorses the president's original plan to give civilian employees a 1% federal pay raise next year.
Congress in the last few weeks may have sounded like a broken record, but the calendar will soon knock the needle somewhere.
Top negotiators in Congress have sealed a deal on $900 billion COVID-19 economic relief package.
Congress has passed a two-day stopgap spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown this weekend
The Cyberspace Solarium Commission's leadership said the SolarWinds breach has further raised the stakes for the National Defense Authorization Act that President Donald Trump has threatened to veto.
With some details, Todd Harrison, senior fellow and director of defense budget analysis at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
President Donald Trump has signed a temporary government-wide funding bill into law, averting a federal shutdown at midnight and buying Congress time for on-again, off-again talks on COVID-19 aid
You'd think for the way Congress appropriates the United States has unlimited money, and those trillions and trillions in debt are just academic. But budgetary policy and monetary policy are two different things.
Lawmakers are embracing a one-week extension of government funding to buy time for more COVID-19 relief talks
The NDAA holds a 3% raise for military service members and extends some hazard pay.
Congress will begin voting Wednesday on a temporary funding stop-gap that will keep the government through Dec. 18. Congressional leaders have repeatedly said they're not expecting a government shutdown, but some agencies have updated their contingency plans for the pandemic just in case.
WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for the outlook.