Congressional leaders went another day without releasing a stopgap funding package as negotiations on a number of additional legislative priorities attached to the bill continued into Monday evening.
The spending patch, known as a continuing resolution, will extend government funding until March 14 and is expected to include nearly $100 billion in disaster aid, House Appropriations ranking member Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) told reporters Monday evening.
But disagreements about other provisions in the wide-ranging CR — especially disputes over economic aid for farmers and farm conservation funding — remained a sticking point among the House and Senate’s top leaders.
The discord, unresolved since Sunday, has already delayed votes on the package as Friday’s funding deadline quickly approaches. Still, lawmakers said Monday they expected leaders to shepherd the CR across the finish line in time to avoid even a brief shutdown before Christmas.
