Speaker Johnson Secures Some Conservative Wins in Spending Fight, Cutting FBI, ATF, and EPA Budgets
The speaker faces a hurdle to get another funding package through the House by the end of March.
Speaker Johnson has secured some wins for his Republican colleagues in the spending negotiations with Senator Schumer and the White House, cutting the budgets of the Environmental Protection Agency, the FBI, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
On Sunday, Messrs. Johnson and Schumer announced an agreement for some federal spending for the remainder of the fiscal year, which ends on September 30. In total, the two legislative leaders have agreed on funding numbers for six of Congressâs 12 appropriations bills.
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