WASHINGTON -- Senate Appropriations Committee leaders have reached agreement to tack on nearly $14 billion in additional fiscal 2024 spending in the bills set to come before the panel before the August recess, sources familiar with the discussions say.
The arrangement brokered by committee Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., and ranking member Susan Collins, R-Maine, would add emergency funding that’s on top of $23 billion already negotiated in a “side deal” alongside the debt ceiling package.
In a joint statement, Murray and Collins said the agreement responds to demands senators on both sides of the aisle, from on and off the committee, have voiced.
