Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Tuesday that Senate leaders had reached an agreement paving the way for floor consideration of its three-bill spending “minibus,” a breakthrough after weeks of stalemate.
With the agreement in place, the Senate can start floor consideration of the package that would combine the fiscal 2024 Military Construction-VA, Agriculture, and Transportation-HUD appropriations bills. The House-passed Military Construction-VA bill is being used as the legislative vehicle for the spending package.
“It took a while to work through … negotiations on many poison pill amendments that, in my judgment, shouldn’t have been offered to begin with,” Schumer, D-N.Y., said on the floor. “But here we are, we’re moving forward.”
