As expected given today’s hyper-partisan environment in Congress, the U.S. government is less than three days away from another shutdown unless Congress enacts a temporary spending bill before the nation’s fiscal year ends on September 30th. Judging by the news filtering out of Washington this week, congressional Republicans and Democrats are miles apart regarding the passage of a short-term funding bill acceptable to both houses of Congress and the President, with further government spending cuts, more restrictive asylum and immigration policies, and limitations for future aid to Ukraine emerging as key sticking points. These temporary spending bills, known as Continuing Resolutions (CR), are stop-gap measures that allow the federal government to remain open and provide services when final spending appropriations have not been approved by Congress and the executive branch.
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