House Budget Battle Finally Shifting to Floor

On tap are proposed strikes on Ukraine money, withholding U.N. funding, spending $2.1 billion on the border wall, and funding agencies at FY19 levels.

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), who has filed hundreds of amendments to various budget bills, joined by members of the House Freedom Caucus, speaks on the debt limit deal outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington on May 30, 2023. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

The House is scheduled on Sept. 26 to stage another procedural vote on allowing budget bills to be debated individually on the floor when it convenes to consider four Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) appropriations packages less than four days before the new fiscal year begins Oct. 1.

The House Rules Committee advanced the four budget bills to the floor in four partisan 9-2 votes cast during an hour-long Sept. 23 meeting after a near-five hour Sept. 22 hearing on the measures.