Overview
- The House passed a partisan stopgap that would fund the government through early December and sent it to the Senate for consideration.
- Senate Majority Leader John Thune has asked Sen. Susan Collins to draft a bipartisan, clean continuing resolution and plans to bring it to the floor before the August recess.
- House Republicans are pushing to add extra Pentagon and other priorities through budget reconciliation, but Senate leaders say they will hold reconciliation until a continuing resolution is secured.
- Congressional recess schedules sharply compress the calendar and leave only about 11 overlapping workdays for both chambers to negotiate before current funding lapses, raising the risk of a shutdown.
- Recent long funding fights have disrupted agencies and public services, and President Trump has said the government is headed for a shutdown if lawmakers do not act by the deadline.