Lawmakers quietly include congressional pay raises in stopgap spending bill

Published December 18, 2024 12:27pm ET



Lawmakers could get their first pay raise in more than a decade under a provision that was quietly tucked into the three-month continuing resolution that was unveiled Tuesday evening.

The House published its 1,500-page spending legislation alongside a multibillion-dollar supplemental just days before the government is set to enter a shutdown and federal funding will lapse. While the resolution mostly extends current government spending levels, it also includes a number of unrelated provisions that resulted from the weekslong negotiations.

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