Last week we reported that the Senate was poised to vote on a spending package that included HUD and USDA funding and that lawmakers were considering another short-term continuing resolution (CR) that would fund the federal government from November 21 (when the current CR expires) through December.
The Senate is expected to vote on the four-bill spending package today and lawmakers are now considering a not-so-short-term CR that would fund the government through the new year.
The spending package includes funding for Agriculture, Commerce-Justice-Science, Interior-Environment and Transportation-HUD. The different funding levels in the House and Senate still need to be resolved and major hang-ups remain around funding for the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border affecting the Military Construction-VA, Defense, Homeland Security and the Labor-HHS bills.
