With the ink barely dry on the new budget caps set by the debt ceiling law, the House and Senate are already tied in knots over an emergency spending package to supplement the numbers in that bipartisan deal. The main driver is military aid to Ukraine, although most now believe that can wait for the fall.
There’s just one problem: The government’s main disaster relief fund is expected to run out of money in August, while Congress is on its summer break.
Until the debt limit fight laid bare the divide between House Republicans, who think the new spending caps are too generous, and senators who want to spend more on everything from Ukraine to stopping the flow of fentanyl, it seemed likely that a summer supplemental was in the cards.
