With the first quarter of fiscal year 2024 already in the rearview, Congress appears poised to kick the spending can even further down the road.
In a 68–3 procedural vote on Jan. 16, the Senate advanced Congress’ third stopgap spending bill in four months to avert a partial government shutdown.
Leaders of both congressional chambers and the White House reached an agreement on the interim measure—called a continuing resolution (CR)—and unveiled its text over the weekend.
The bill would extend the deadlines for Congress to pass two sets of annual appropriations bills to March 1 and March 8. Due to the two-part “laddered” nature of the CR passed in November, current funding is set to expire on Jan. 19 and Feb. 2….
