House Continues Consideration of Spending Bills – 6-27-24

The House today continued consideration of spending bills under the provisions of H Res 1316. The House continued work on HR 8771, the FY 2025 State Department spending bill and began considering HR 8774, the FY 2025 DOD spending bill. The House did not complete action on either bill.

State Spending Bill

The House worked through amendment #75 today. This was the last amendment to be considered. All that remains at this point is a final vote on the bill. That is expected tomorrow.

DOD Spending Bill

The House worked through amendment #140 (out of 193 approved by the rule). They also approved five sets of en bloc amendments, each bloc approved by voice votes. The three amendments I briefly described as being of interest here in this morning’s post were all approved in separate en bloc amendments.

Moving Forward

The House still plans on completing work on all three bills tomorrow. It certainly looks like they should be able to get to final votes. The only thing that could delay final consideration is if the leadership is unsure whether they will have the votes to pass the bill, and with the current limited majority that is far from guaranteed. Rather than risk the embarrassment of any of the bills being rejected, the Speaker is likely to ‘postpone’ a final vote on one or more of the bills until further deals can be made.