What made the cut in Congress’s plan to avert a shutdown — and what didn’t

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-23 05:10:08 | Updated at 2024-09-30 11:26:20 1 week ago

What made the cut in Congress’s plan to avert a shutdown — and what didn’t
The Hill ^ | 09/22/24 6:22 PM ET | by Aris Folley -

Posted on 09/22/2024 9:16:18 PM PDT by RandFan

The deal, rolled out Sunday afternoon, would keep the government funded through Dec. 20 to buy time to hash out a funding agreement for the rest of fiscal 2025.

The roughly three-month timeline is the preferred duration of Democrats and Republican defense hawks.

It comes after a bill containing a six-month stopgap, the time frame sought by conservatives, failed on the House floor

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Secret Service

The bill includes $231 million in funding for the Secret Service in the wake of the apparent second assassination attempt against Trump.

The proposed funding for the Secret Service comes as the acting director, Ronald Rowe, has pushed for more resources for the agency.

SAVE Act

The bill unveiled Sunday excludes the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, despite Trump urging the party to fight to get the bill enacted this month, even if it means a shutdown.

Submarine funding

Funding for the Virginia Class Submarine program that was included in the earlier GOP-backed plan is absent from the new stopgap plan.

The previous plan sought to appropriate about $2 billion to the Defense Department for the “shipbuilding and conversion” for the program. Aides said Sunday the funding fell out, however, after a “joint conversation” between appropriators, defense officials and the Biden administration.

VA shortfall

The bill also fails to address what the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has warned is a potential $12 billion shortfall facing the agency for fiscal 2025, despite pressure from Democrats.

However, the 46-page bill features a number of health care extensions for the VA, including measures appropriators say would extend its authority to provide nursing care to veterans with “service-connected disabilities,” as well as the authority for the joint Department of Defense-Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Facility Demonstration Fund.

FEMA funding

The three-month stopgap excludes $10 billion in additional funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) disaster relief fund that was previously included in House Republicans’ initial six-month plan. But it does allow the agency to use the fund’s resources faster for disaster response for the roughly three-month span.

“We made a joint decision to address, because it’s going to be a two and a half month CR, the disaster side with no additional disaster money,” the aides said Sunday

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1 posted on 09/22/2024 9:16:18 PM PDT by RandFan

To: RandFan

Repukes never negotiated any deal that didn’t benefit the RATS. They’re perpetual gutless wonders.

2 posted on 09/22/2024 9:31:28 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)

To: RandFan

Would a shutdown help or hurt Trump going into November?

3 posted on 09/22/2024 9:41:34 PM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)

To: RandFan

How much $$$ is this “deal” going to cost?

4 posted on 09/22/2024 9:50:18 PM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TV)

To: RandFan

It's been decades since congress (also known as a gathering of baboons) has passed all appropriations bills on time (i.e. by September 30).

I predict with a good degree of certainty that the final omnibus bill won't be passed until at least March of next year six months into the fiscal year

5 posted on 09/22/2024 10:06:11 PM PDT by rllngrk33 (The soap box and ballot box have failed, it's really close to time for the bullet box.)

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