Weekly Update 2/26/24

Appropriations

President Biden has invited the “Big Four” leaders — Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) — to the White House tomorrow morning to discuss this latest crisis and to encourage Johnson to pass the foreign aid package…

A group of House conservatives are calling for an update on the status of nearly two dozen possible policy riders that could be included in a deal to fund the federal government — and floating a yearlong stopgap measure…

California

A California bill banning per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances will be amended to impose a 2030 end date on the use of so-called "forever chemicals," its sponsor announced Wednesday, 2/22…

President and Administration

On Tuesday, 2/21, President Biden announced the approval of $1.2 billion in student debt cancellation for almost 153,000 borrowers currently enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) repayment plan…

Congress

House lawmakers are expected to vote this week on a bipartisan deal that expands access to rapid training programs…

Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AL), Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) are pushing top appropriators to include an extension in any upcoming government funding deal that would give schools an extra year to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in pandemic-era relief aimed at helping homeless students…

Education

Los Angeles charter leaders say their schools are no longer growing and instead trying to survive…