Senate Passes First Spending Package in Race Against House and Time

The Senate’s choice to combine spending bills marks a very different path from that chosen by the GOP-led House.

The U.S. Capitol building in Washington on Oct. 3, 2023. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

After weeks of negotiations and delays, the Senate passed its first 2024 spending package on Nov. 1.

The “minibus” joined three appropriations bills providing funding for military construction and the departments of Veterans Affairs (VA), Agriculture, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development.