by Daniel Chaitin
Daily Wire
Leaders in Congress announced on Sunday a spending deal that could help avert the start of another government shutdown in less than two weeks.
In a letter to colleagues, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) revealed a fiscal 2024 agreement of $886 billion for defense and $704 billion for nondefense. The “topline” $1.59 trillion figure matches the “statutory levels” agreed upon in last year’s debt ceiling bill called the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA), he added.
Johnson touted “concessions,” including further slashing funds directed to the Internal Revenue Service and cutting the Biden administration’s billions more dollars in “slush funds” from the COVID era, and the rejection of “accounting gimmicks” from the FRA framework.