The Trump administration wants flexibility in the stopgap funding bill to properly finance nutrition benefits for pregnant and nursing mothers; low-income housing vouchers; services for veterans exposed to toxins overseas; and the “D.C. fix” enabling local officials to spend more of the city’s own funds, among other requests delivered to Capitol Hill on Tuesday.
By itself, the White House’s “anomalies” list appears pretty innocuous and includes priorities backed by members on both sides of the aisle for years in continuing resolutions that are needed to prevent partial government shutdowns after Sept. 30. But there are two major problems thus far for Democratic leaders that are likely to be topics of discussion in the coming days.
The first is the duration of the funding request: The Trump administration wants it to go out to Jan. 31, 2026, which Democrats and some GOP appropriators argue is too lengthy — they prefer a shorter stopgap measure to keep the pressure on for a deal on full-year fiscal 2026 spending bills.
