NEW: Budget Deal Reached

Congressional leaders on Tuesday formally announced a deal to keep the rest of the government funded through the fiscal year, with the text of the legislation to be released “as soon as possible,” Speaker Mike Johnson said.

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A GOP leadership aide told CNN on Monday night that congressional negotiators had reached an agreement on funding for the Department of Homeland Security. At a time when security at the southern border has become a central issue in the 2024 campaign, funding for the agency had become a major obstacle.

Ed Morrissey

Five of the remaining six appropriations bills will get wrapped into this omnibus, and Homeland Security will apparently operate on a CR for the rest of the budget year. So .... what purpose did McCarthy's ouster as Speaker serve, anyway? If anything, McCarthy could have delivered this deal months ago and with more Republicans still in Congress. 

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