Lawmakers are back to writing a full-year fiscal 2024 Homeland Security appropriations bill in a dramatic, last-minute shift following White House intervention over the weekend, sources familiar with the decision said Sunday night.
Appropriators had been working on a yearlong stopgap measure, negotiating necessary changes to the fiscal 2023 status quo to be included as “anomalies,” after talks on a full-year bill initially fell apart late last week.
That continuing resolution was expected to be packaged with the five remaining fiscal 2024 appropriations bills. However, as lawmakers got ready to roll out the package the White House made a late-inning request for $1.56 billion in border-related funding, arguing that a CR through Sept. 30 would be insufficient to meet existing needs.
