Negotiators announce bipartisan framework agreement for government funding package

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https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/13/politics/government-funding-shutdown-latest

Top congressional negotiators announced Tuesday evening that an agreement had been reached for a framework that should allow lawmakers to complete a sweeping full-year government funding package.

Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy said in a statement that he and ranking Republican member Richard Shelby and House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro have “reached a bipartisan, bicameral framework that should allow us to finish an omnibus appropriations bill that can pass the House and Senate and be signed into law by the President.”

The announcement did not delve into specific details of what the agreement encompasses, but marks a major breakthrough as lawmakers work to fund the government before the end of the year.

Congress is on track to pass a week-long extension to avert a shutdown on Friday, but a broader funding deal had been challenging amid a dispute between the two parties over how much money should be spent on non-defense, domestic priorities. Shelby had previously told reporters the two sides were roughly $26 billion apart.

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This morning CNN announced that the turtle is on board but not McCarthy which means, I suppose that the House can sill pass it.

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1. The deal doesn't address the debt ceiling

So let’s hope Biden and the Dems have the spine to refuse to negotiate with terrorists when they hold the world economy hostage early next year.

[crickets]

2. K&R for visibility.