Congress is about to buy itself about three months’ worth of extra time to work out a final spending agreement for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1. But the leadership of both chambers are operating under very different assumptions about what lawmakers can accomplish before the Dec. 20 deadline in the new stopgap funding bill.
While what happens in November remains up in the air, as congressional leaders prepare their troops for the campaign’s homestretch, they are sticking to their talking points.
House Republican leaders, outwardly confident about winning the White House, keeping the House and flipping the Senate, want to quickly wrap up in December by passing another stopgap bill into the new year.
