A Wild Budget Agreement Appeared! House Speaker Mike Johnson (R–La.) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D–N.Y.) unveiled on Sunday a set of six budget bills that would avert a partial government shutdown if passed by Friday's deadline. Cumulatively, the six bills would cost about $460 billion and would fall within the $1.7 trillion discretionary spending cap that both sides previously agreed to impose, the Associated Press reports. If passed, they would fund portions of the government through the end of the fiscal year in September.
The 1,000-plus-page package needs to be passed by both the House and the Senate this week, and it's not immediately clear whether objections in one or both chambers could derail the process. The other six appropriation bills representing the larger half of the annual discretionary budget also have a looming deadline, in their case March 22.
