Lawmakers are moving forward with a plan to fund the government with a stopgap measure that would potentially extend funding. The question is for exactly how long.
“It sounds like we’re heading towards a pretty clean” continuing resolution, Sen. John Cornyn told reporters on Tuesday. “We don’t really know how long, but the appropriations process seems pretty broken to me.”
Republicans have floated a CR that keeps the government funded through for a month or two beyond the Sept. 30 deadline. But the White House is suggesting a slightly longer time frame: Administration officials sent a list to GOP leaders of funding anomalies they want addressed in a continuing resolution that they suggested could run through Jan. 31.