BREAKING: US Senate votes to move forward with funding the government ahead of a Friday deadline to avert a shutdown after Sen. Manchin backs off his effort to include an energy and infrastructure provision that lacked enough support to break a filibuster.
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Tuesday to move forward with funding the government through mid-December ahead of a Friday deadline to avert a shutdown.on a path to passage, keeping the government running until Dec. 16 while congressional leaders attempt to hammer out an agreement that would last through next September.
Tuesday's test vote came after Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., backed down on his top priority for the legislation: a deal to overhaul the permitting process for energy and infrastructure projects. Many Republicans — and a few Democrats — opposed his measure, which was promised to him by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to win his decisive vote for the previously passed Inflation Reduction Act.
Moments earlier, Manchin had privately huddled with Schumer in his office, two aides familiar with the matter said. Amid political tension and weeks before a contentious midterm election, the path forward on permitting isn’t clear. Manchin had a long conversation with Senate Minority Leader McConnell, R-Ky., on the floor, hours after the leader tanked his bill by whipping Republicans against an issue many of them support on its face. McConnell"was able to succeed in stopping something I thought was very much needed now. But we have other avenues,” the centrist Democrat said afterward.
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