House Appropriations Committee Chair Kay Granger announced she will step down from her post, just hours after the House passed a $1.2 trillion spending package to keep the government open.
House Appropriations Committee Chair Kay Granger, R-Texas, arrives as House Republicans meet behind closed-doors to determine how quickly lawmakers can wrap up this fiscal year’s final set of spending bills and passed to avoid a partial government shutdown, at the …
Ms. Granger, Texas Republican, earlier announced that she will retire Congress at the end of her term, adding to the growing list of longtime Republicans and Democrats heading for the exits after a chaotic year in the House. “As I reflect on my time in the House of Representatives and more than five years as ranking member and now chairwoman of the Appropriations Committee, I realize I have accomplished more than I ever could have imagined,” Ms. Granger said in a statement.
Mr. Johnson said in a statement on X that Ms. Granger has been a “loyal friend and encourager” since he entered Congress, noting that she was the first Republican chairwoman to lead the spending panel.
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