A House Appropriations subcommittee on Thursday advanced the fiscal 2025 Legislative Branch spending bill, which would provide $5.5 billion for House and joint items, a 3.5 percent increase from enacted fiscal 2024 levels.
After cuts last year to the Legislative Branch bill — which funds Congress and support agencies and is the smallest of the 12 spending bills passed annually — committee Democrats welcomed the bump in the GOP proposal even as they continued to hammer their Republican colleagues on conservative policy riders included in the text.
The draft bill, which totals $7.1 billion including Senate-only items, advanced out of subcommittee by voice vote and will now move to the full committee for a markup.
