GOP Leaders Weighing Mid-February Stopgap, With Sweeteners
Source: Roll Call
GOP leaders are working on a stopgap continuing resolution that would continue current spending levels into mid-February, and include a health care package including reauthorization of the Children’s Health Insurance Program, community health center funding, extension of various Medicare provisions and other health-related measures, people with knowledge of the process say.
Some elements of the proposal are still being worked out and it is unclear what the final package will look like. But the plan is being developed to draw bipartisan support on the floor of both chambers next week, averting a partial government shutdown after midnight next Friday, January 19, when the current stopgap expires.
Feb. 16 appears to be the most likely end date for the stopgap, sources familiar with the discussions said. That would set up the next deadline the Friday before the weeklong Presidents’ Day recess.
The plan could give GOP and Democratic leaders enough time to finalize a budget deal that would raise discretionary spending caps imposed by the 2011 deficit reduction law and include other Republican and Democratic priorities before the next stopgap expires.
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