Senate clears procedural obstacle for stopgap spending measure
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said the Senate would maybe depart a stopgap spending measure by Thursday. Photograph by Julia Nikhinson/UPI | License Photograph Jan. 17 (UPI) — The Senate overwhelmingly developed a stopgap federal spending measure on Tuesday, setting up a final vote to develop its allotment in stopping a authorities shutdown
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said the Senate would maybe depart a stopgap spending measure by Thursday. Photograph by Julia Nikhinson/UPI | License Photograph
Jan. 17 (UPI) — The Senate overwhelmingly developed a stopgap federal spending measure on Tuesday, setting up a final vote to develop its allotment in stopping a authorities shutdown by the weekend.
The 68-13 vote on Tuesday turn into as soon as merely a procedural step but gave momentum to passing the two-step Continuing Resolution that will give Congress till March 1 and March 8 to maneuver a prolonged-time interval spending kit.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck SchumerD-N.Y., said he anticipated the measure to maneuver before the Friday closing date following Tuesday’s vote.
“If each facets proceed to work in precise faith, I am hopeful that we are able to wrap up work on the CR no later than Thursday,” Schumer said. “The predominant to ending our work this week will be bipartisan cooperation in each chambers. You cannot depart these payments without strengthen from Republicans and Democrats in each the Condo and the Senate.”
Congressional leaders hammered out the non eternal agreement over the weekend that will give legislators more time to appropriate funds for quite a lot of departments.
If the bill is never any longer handed funding for the Department of Transportation, Department of Vitality, Department of Agriculture and Department of Veterans Affairs alongside with others will expire on Friday with varied companies keep of abode to shut down on Feb. 2.
The measure is anticipated to face opposition from some distance-factual Republicans in the Condo, which is keep of abode to steal up the topic as quickly as it clears the Senate.
Speaker Mike Johnson is ready for defections from the GOP Freedom Caucus members, which manner that he’ll want strengthen from Democrats to maneuver the end-gap spending bill, setting up a showdown that ended in the ouster of his predecessor, Web. Kevin McCarthyR-Calif.
A long way-factual Republicans grasp called for deeper spending cuts to any funds provide that will seemingly be rejected by the Senate and Condo Democrats.
