The Latest Breaking News from Appropriations

Lawmakers who voted against the omnibus spending package secured $3 billion worth of earmarks, a CQ Roll Call tally found.

WASHINGTON — Appropriations Committee leaders distributed spending allocations to their dozen subcommittees on Thursday, sources familiar with the talks said, one of the last steps before lawmakers and staff can finish drafting the sprawling omnibus package they plan to unveil Monday afternoon.

Lawmakers returned to Capitol Hill full from Thanksgiving break and, among other things, got back to work on funding the government before the current CR expires on Dec. 16. Highlights from this week’s Congressional Hits and Misses include House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House…

Democrats in the Senate rejected new limits on committee chairs while a House Democratic term limit proposal may be considered next week.

If negotiators can't get a deal, the result could be another stopgap spending bill or potentially a partial government shutdown.

An imminent end to pandemic-era asylum restrictions under Title 42 has renewed border policy debates on Capitol Hill.

WASHINGTON — Vermont Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, the Senate’s president pro tempore and Appropriations Committee chairman, was discharged from a Washington-area hospital Friday after spending a night for “tests and observation,” his office said in a statement.

WASHINGTON — Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, the Senate president pro tempore and Appropriations chairman, was hospitalized after not feeling well Thursday night, according to his office.

WASHINGTON — When former Rep. Antonio Delgado resigned his seat in May, he was lucky in one respect: The central New York Democrat had been tapped to become his home state’s lieutenant governor.