Democratic US Senate Leader Schumer will try to get as much taken care of before the Republican House majority kicks in Jan. 1st…..
The Republicans are already fighting among themselves…..
Legislation maybe hard to get done….
Actually?
Could moderate House Republicans work with Democratsto get around the GOP crazies?
The upcoming massive year-end spending package will include a revamp of an obscure law that Donald Trump tried to exploit to overturn the results of the 2020 election, Chuck Schumer announced Tuesday.
The Senate majority leader also said anticipated additional Ukraine aid would make it into the deal, though he did not specify an amount. Top appropriators are looking to cement the overall spending levels on the stalled funding bill as soon as Tuesday, a critical step for negotiations to wrap up by the end of the year….
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Federal cash expires at midnight on Friday. To ward off a shutdown, Schumer has called on Congress to pass a week-long stopgap spending fix, giving appropriators extra time to put the finishing touches on the sprawling $1.7 trillion funding bill.
The House could pass that temporary funding measure as soon as Wednesday. But even that short spending patch comes with its own risks in the Senate, as any one senator can hold up a bill to request amendment votes or other concessions — pushing the government closer to the shutdown deadline.
While appropriators have agreed on how much to spend on defense, the main holdup has been on domestic funding levels. Republicans insisted that the majority party had satisfied its priorities through party-line spending bills, while Democrats argued that billions in additional social spending was necessary to combat the effects of inflation….