Deal Reached for Vote on US Funding Bill

By Joseph Lord

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said that lawmakers had reached a deal for a vote on a package to keep the [US] government funded through March 14.

“I have very good news for my colleagues and the country. Democrats and Republicans have reached, just reached an agreement that will allow us to pass the CR tonight, before the midnight deadline,” Schumer said on the Senate floor.

The announcement came with just around an hour remaining until the government goes into a shutdown. The vote will almost certainly extend beyond the 12:00 a.m. ET deadline, but the White House Office of Management and Budget has in the past indicated that there’s some leeway for that deadline if Congress is in the process of passing legislation.