Deal calls for splitting a funding bill for DHS from a package of other funding bills
Senators have reached a deal to advance a major package of spending bills to avert a partial government shutdown that was set to begin on Saturday.
The office of Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s top Democrat, confirmed the deal calls for splitting a funding bill for the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from a package of other funding bills, and that the deal would fund DHS for two weeks at its current levels.
The deal would avert a partial shutdown that would have affected many of the government’s functions. The House, which is out of session, would have to approve the revised package. The government’s current spending authorizations expire after Friday, while the House in not back until Monday.
The Senate could vote on the deal as soon as Thursday evening. In the House, speaker Mike Johnson, told the Associated Press that he had been “vehemently opposed” to breaking up the funding package, but “if it is broken up, we will have to move it as quickly as possible. We can’t have the government shut down.”
No one’s going to lose SNAP benefits tho. And DC workers will be paid.
Come on. Neither of those things were supposed to happen last time either. Holding back the SNAP benefits and not paying DC workers were both patently breaking the law and how it’s structured and every agency bent over and did it for Trump anyway.
Sick of people pretending that they won’t do the cruel shit because “it’s not allowed.” They keep doing it and getting away with it even though it’s not allowed!