Appropriators Push Back on Stopgap Timeline
Appropriators are coalescing around a plan for a short-term stopgap funding bill along with a set of three smaller final spending bills, even as the White House wants the funding patch to run into the next year.
The White House sent Congress yesterday a list of its requested “anomalies” — or changes to current funding levels — to include in a continuing resolution that lawmakers are widely expected to have to pass to avert a government shutdown. The request assumes the continuing resolution would run through January 2026, but lawmakers say the end date ...