The House GOP-drafted stopgap funding measure would remove pressure for final decisions on this year’s appropriations bills until early in 2024, and the lapsed farm bill would be renewed through next September. But that doesn’t take the pressure off lawmakers to tackle a variety of other measures on their “to-do” list for the remainder of the year.
Top of mind for many on both sides of the aisle is emergency spending for the wars in Ukraine and Israel and the Gaza Strip and associated economic and humanitarian fallout, which is tied up in a dispute over what to do about record migrant border-crossings. But President Joe Biden’s emergency funding package is effectively on hold until after Thanksgiving.
The measure would also leave out extensions of Federal Aviation Administration programs and so-called Section 702 warrantless surveillance authorities that expire Dec. 31. A number of tax and health care-related items also weren’t addressed.
