Senate Progress on Spending Bills Slows Amid GOP Objections

Republicans called the move to combine the bills a manipulation tactic.

Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) speaks during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Aug. 6, 2020. Toni Sandys-Pool/Getty Images

The advancement of three fiscal year 2024 appropriations bills slowed in the U.S. Senate on Sept. 14 amid the objections of some Republicans to combining them into a single package.

The deceleration followed a motion for unanimous consent to tie spending bills concerning the Department of Agriculture and Food and Drug Administration and the Departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development to appropriations for military construction and the Department of Veterans Affairs.