Senate Funding Deal Set to Miss Shutdown Deadline: BGOV Budget

Funding Deal to Miss Shutdown Deadline

The Senate is closing in on passing a deal to fund most parts of the government long-term with the exception of the Homeland Security, but it’s not a done deal yet.

The Senate is aiming to pass legislation (H.R. 7148; BGOV Bill Analysis) later today to fund departments whose funding expires at midnight tonight, after clinching an eleventh-hour deal to excise a bipartisan deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security until September. It instead puts DHS on a two-week stopgap, paving the way for approval in both chambers of a ...