WASHINGTON — The House is committed to voting on the fiscal 2022 omnibus spending bill Wednesday. There’s just one problem: It’s not finalized yet.
Appropriations staff worked through the night Monday and into Tuesday morning to try to finalize text for the massive spending package, which will appropriate roughly $1.5 trillion across defense and nondefense government accounts, more than $12 billion in emergency funding for the Ukraine crisis and $15 billion in largely reprogrammed COVID-19 aid.
“Republicans and Democrats continue making good progress towards reaching a deal to fund the government. We are almost there. We are very, very close, and hopefully it will be done in the next few hours,” Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer said in floor remarks Tuesday morning.
