With a bipartisan $1.37 trillion spending package nearly on its way to the House floor, a government shutdown over the holidays is appearing less likely.
The package is ripe with compromises that likely annoy lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, but it couldn't come soon enough. Government funding provided through a"continuing resolution" is due to expire at midnight on Friday.
Congressional lawmakers hope to pass 12 appropriations bills in both chambers and obtain a presidential signature before week's end."You really can do some good things and you never expect everyone to agree with everything," Representative Nita Lowey, a New York Democrat who helped spearhead the funding efforts, toldlast week."You look at the 12 bills and I think you can be very proud of the work this Congress is doing.
The decennial census should be fully funded, as well as the National Institutes of Health's medical research efforts. Federal workers will see a 3.1 percent pay bump. Early-education programs and Title I schools should get record funding, and states entrenched in the opioid crisis will be eligible for $1.5 billion in grants, according to the aide.
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