The House failed to pass the annual agriculture spending bill after 27 Republicans joined all Democrats in opposing the measure, dealing a minor setback to GOP leaders as they seek to pass as many appropriations bills as they can before federal funding is set to lapse this weekend.
The House voted to provide $300 million in aid to Ukraine, passing the measure as a stand-alone bill after it was stripped from the annual defense spending bill in an effort by GOP leaders to appease hard-line conservatives and secure their support to advance the must-pass legislation when it came up for a vote Thursday night.
After two failed rule votes, a procedural vote then having to go back to the Rules Committee to strip Ukraine funding out of the bill, and another procedural vote, the House finally passed its version of the annual Pentagon funding bill that will never become law Thursday night.
The House managed to pass its annual State Department and Foreign Operations spending bill, overcoming a small faction of Republican lawmakers who opposed the legislation due to some provisions that allocated funds to go toward the war in Ukraine.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) blasted a fellow New Yorker and GOP lawmaker for being "missing in action" on combating a looming federal government shutdown.
Some healthcare patients have seven days to file a claim in the $2 million settlement concerning Froedtert Health and Facebook if they used a patient online portal from 2017 to 2022.
