The House easily passed a stopgap spending measure to avoid a shutdown at month’s end. But the hard part is just beginning.
The House on Thursday easily passed a stopgap spending measure to avert a shutdown at month’s end. But the hard part is just beginning.
After a 301-123 vote, the House-approved funding bill — which keeps the government open until just before Thanksgiving — now heads to the Senate, which is expected to clear the legislation well before the Sept. 30 deadline. The most difficult piece of the upcoming funding talks center on a small slice of the $1.4 trillion budget: the Department of Homeland Security. That bill alone, and the related fight over the wall, was the trigger of the longest-ever government shutdown that stretched from last December to January.
Senate Appropriations Chairman Richard Shelby acknowledged earlier this week that bipartisanship in the appropriations process has eroded over funding for Trump’s wall. “They know darn well that $12 billion in additional monies for the wall isn’t going to fly with Senate Democrats or the House,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said.
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