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Biden Signs CR To Avoid Shutdown, As Lawmakers Ready Six Spending Bills For Next Week

By Matthew Beinart

Friday, March 1st, 2024

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Biden Signs CR To Avoid Shutdown, As Lawmakers Ready Six Spending Bills For Next Week

Low angled view of the U.S. Capitol East Facade Front in Washington, DC.

President Biden on Friday signed a stopgap funding measure to avoid a partial government shutdown, allowing lawmakers additional time to complete work on final fiscal year 2024 appropriations bills. The continuing resolution (CR) extension pushes back the two funding deadlines to March 8 and March 22, and arrives following congressional leaders’ announcement earlier in the week of a bipartisan agreement on a framework for six of the 12 fiscal year 2024 spending bills. “I am really glad that we have…

Congress

Warren And Sheehy Renew Call for “Right to Repair” In NDAA

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sen. Timothy Sheehy (R-Mont.), two members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), are renewing their call for “Right to Repair” language in the National […]

HASC Looks To Restrict USV Deliveries Without Navy CONOPS And Strategy

The House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) fiscal year 2027 defense policy draft bill aims to restrict the Navy’s use of unmanned surface vessels (USV) until it decides on key factors […]

Congress

Gaps In Army’s Tactical Counter-Drone Capabilities Remain Concern Of HASC

A draft defense policy bill released this week says the Army is fielding counter-drone capabilities for defense of fixed sites and maneuver forces but suggests that troops at the lowest […]

Army

HASC Wants Closer Look At Army’s SBMC Program, Cites Avoiding Past IVAS Missteps

The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) wants a closer look at the Army’s Soldier Borne Mission Command (SBMC) effort, citing support for the development program while expressing caution to avoid […]