Republicans in the U.S. Congress will have to agree on a short-term funding measure soon if they are to avoid a government shutdown and meet their own goal of passing 12 separate appropriations bills, the No. 2 Senate Republican said on Wednesday.
and meet their own goal of passing 12 separate appropriations bills, the No. 2 Senate Republican said on Wednesday.
"We've got to get past the Sept. 30 deadline and buy a little bit of time," he said. "We've got a short runway to do this."stymied efforts to move forward on an $886 billion defense appropriations package in the House, where a group of hard-line conservatives are pressing to cut 2024 spending back to a 2022 level of $1.47 trillion.
The Senate is only now beginning to move forward on its first spending legislation, which the House managed to pass only one bill before Republican infighting consumed the process.
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