House Panel Set to Advance 2024 Budget Bills to Floor

After near-five hour Friday hearing, House Rules Committee votes Saturday on four spending measures with eight more in limbo a week before fiscal year ends.

Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) speaks during a House Rules Committee meeting on measures giving working Americans and small businesses more health coverage options, protecting fiscally responsible people from being punished with higher mortgage fees, and condemning moves to use public school facilities to house illegal migrants in Congress in Washington on June 20, 2023. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

The House Rules Committee will convene Saturday to approve four appropriations bills after reaching what appears to be grudging consensus on how the spending measures will be debated next week during a near-five hour Friday hearing.

If the four budget bills advance, the Republican-led House only needs to get eight more annual appropriations bills that constitute the federal budget to the floor, adopt all 12, negotiate with the Democrat-majority Senate to arrive at one spending plan, and then adopt that final budget before the fiscal year begins Oct. 1—next Saturday.