It’s a fluid situation in Washington D.C. re the talks on funding the government.
The latest … chronologically:
- On Saturday the Senate passed an extension of federal spending authority through midnight Wednesday (12.00 a.m. ET on Thursday)
- Senate leaders, however, have still not reached an agreement to accelerate a vote on a $1.1 trillion spending bill that would fund all government agencies through September 2015 except for the Department of Homeland Security
Later:
- Democratic and Republican leaders in the Senate struck a deal for a vote on a $1.1 trillion federal spending bill
- A Senate Democratic leadership aide said procedural and final votes on the measure could come in the next few hours
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Everybody ‘knows’ that a deal will be struck and the US will get funded and bumble along. like I said, though … the situation is fluid.