House Republicans passed a bill to cut funding for the Department of the Interior and Environmental Protection Agency on Friday, completing work on the seventh of 12 annual funding bills.
Members voted 213-203 to pass their Interior-Environment appropriations bill despite Democratic criticism of spending cuts and conservative policy riders.
Lawmakers face a Nov. 17 deadline to fund the government and haven’t started bicameral negotiations. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told reporters Thursday members understand they’ll likely need to rely on a stopgap and have discussed a measure running into mid-January. The Senate passed three of their 12 appropriations bills earlier this ...