The 99-page Fiscal Responsibility Act will need to pass the Democratic-controlled Senate before the June 5 deadline set by the Treasury Department to act or risk default. Here's what is in the legislation.
WASHINGTON — The bipartisan deal struck by Democratic President Joe Biden and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy would extend the debt limit for two years alongside modest federal spending cuts and a series of policy provisions., which McCarthy, R-Calif., says will get a vote in the Republican-led House on Wednesday, will need to pass the Democratic-controlled Senate before the June 5 deadline set by the Treasury Department to act or risk default.
That effectively resolves the issue through the 2024 election, leaving it to the next president and the new Congress to deal with.The agreement includes spending caps for the next two years to set up the appropriations process. In fiscal year 2024, it would limit military spending to $886 billion and nonmilitary discretionary spending to $704 billion. In fiscal year 2025, those numbers would rise to about $895 billion and $711 billion.
Factoring in adjustments, the White House projects that when veterans funding is set aside, nondefense spending would barely change — with a slight reduction overall from 2023 to 2024. "It's flat. It's a difference of about $1 billion," a White House official said."In a divided government, we're not going to get the kinds of [nondefense discretionary] increases that we would hope to get."The bill would rescind about $28 billion in unspent Covid relief funds. It would eliminate $1.4 billion in IRS funding and shift about $20 billion of the $80 billion provided to the agency through the Inflation Reduction Act to non-defense funds.
The bill would overhaul the National Environmental Policy Act to streamline permitting for projects; House Republicans tout it as"the first significant reforms to NEPA since 1982."The White House is touting it as a budget deal — not a ransom payment for a debt ceiling extension — and emphasizing the modesty of the spending cuts even though it faces a GOP-led House. It also notes that the bill would make"no changes to Medicaid" and leave Social Security and Medicare untouched.
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