Spending deal clears obstacle in shutdown fight

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Source: The Hill

The top appropriators in the House and Senate on Tuesday struck a deal on spending allocations, clearing a hurdle in the path toward reaching a broader deal to avoid a government shutdown on Dec. 11.

"This agreement allows bipartisan, bicameral negotiations to proceed at the subcommittee level and provides further momentum for enacting full year appropriations bills by the December 11 government funding deadline," a House Democratic aide said.

Though overall spending levels for the 2021 fiscal year were hammered out last summer as part of a two-year spending deal, the Democratic-controlled House and Republican-controlled Senate differed in their approaches to divvying up the funds between agencies in 12 spending bills.

House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.) and Senate Appropriations Chairman Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), have been negotiating since shortly after the Nov. 3 election to find a compromise that would allow the 12 appropriations subcommittees to get on the same page with clear spending limits in order to iron out further differences.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/spending-deal-clears-obstacle-in-shutdown-fight/ar-BB1bkeus?li=BBnb7Kz

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Now if they could get another COVID relief package passed that would be great.

[elleng]

1. toward reaching a broader deal to avoid a government shutdown on Dec. 11.

[msongs]

2. yeah relief package as trump's going away gift nt

[soothsayer]

3. It's a relief he's going away

[beachbumbob]

4. What makes any one think that trump will agree?

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Having had a 2-year budget agreement

at least creates a perimeter wall around how much wiggle room that they have to come to some agreement.

Back in 2016 after the election when the earlier C.R. was expiring during that same December timeframe as this year, Congress eventually agreed to a new C.R. that extended government funding until April 28, 2017 "to allow the new Administration to influence the spending priorities" (paraphrase).