Has Congress Approved 2024 Budget. The race is on for congress to pass the final spending package for the current budget year and push any threats of a government shutdown to the fall. Hours earlier, it advanced out of the house in a 286 to 134.

Trump’s own gop platform vows to “reassert greater federal control over washington, d.c.”. Washington (ap) — the senate on friday approved a $460 billion package of spending bills in time to meet a midnight deadline for avoiding a shutdown of many key federal.