The Senate is eyeing a one-week stopgap bill to push back a Friday deadline to fund the government as negotiators continue to pursue a full-year funding agreement.
Part of the struggle to agree on an overall spending level is that Republican leaders say military funding should be higher than non-defense funding in the larger package.
He said that if Democrats can accept less non-defense money,"we may still have a shot at assembling a full-year funding bill" this month."If our Democratic colleagues can't accept those realities, the option will be a short-term bipartisan funding bill into early next year."“These things always seem really, really difficult. And then ... when they come together, they seem to come together pretty quickly,” Sen.
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, a staunchly conservative congressman, immediately called on Republicans to reject the stopgap bill, which would extend the deadline from Dec. 16 to Dec. 23. Senate Appropriations Chair Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., who is retiring at the end of this term, said he believes Congress can still succeed at passing an omnibus this year.
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