House Passes First FY24 Package, Refocusing Washington Spending and Cutting Wasteful Bureaucracy

March 6, 2024
Press Release

WASHINGTON - Today, the House of Representatives met to consider H.R. 4366, The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024. The measure was approved with a vote of 339 to 85.

In recent years, domestic spending has skyrocketed, adding trillions to our national debt. For the 118th Congress, the House Republican Conference made a promise to change the trajectory of federal spending and put an end to budgetary waste, without compromising on our commitment to veterans or shortchanging investments in national security.

Now, House Republicans are delivering on that promise.

Under Speaker Johnson’s topline spending agreement, the Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations bills dramatically reduce the use of off-book resources and budgetary gimmicks – steps that will save taxpayers more than $200 billion over the next ten years. The bills come in under the President’s Budget Request by more than $100 billion and rein in efforts by the Senate to spend beyond the topline. The bills represent the first overall cut to non-defense, non-VA spending in almost a decade.

Fundamentally, the bills achieve what House Republicans set out to do by strategically increasing defense spending and making targeted cuts to wasteful non-defense programs.

The bills in this package are prime examples:

  • The Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act fully funds veterans medical care, honoring our commitment to the brave men and women that have served our country.
  • The Agriculture, Rural Development, and Food and Drug Administration Appropriations Act preserves funding for America’s farmers, ranchers, and rural communities.
  • The programmatic non-defense levels in the other four Acts are reduced from Fiscal Year 2023.
  • Targeted cuts are made to bring about the changes House Republicans have fought for, including cuts to the FBI (6%), ATF (7%), and EPA (9.6%).

Spending reductions aren’t the only Republican wins in these bills. Even with a Democrat as President, a divided Congress, and a slim Majority, House Republicans maintained longstanding legacy riders that Democrats sought to repeal, rejected harmful policies proposed in the President’s Budget and Senate bills, and fought for and secured conservative wins.

A full summary of the package is available here.

Bill text is available here.

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