Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has announced a deal with Senate Democrats to fund the government and set spending levels for defense and nondefense programs over the next two years.
The legislation would avert a government shutdown on Friday, when federal funding is due to expire, and boost defense and nondefense programs.
It also lifts the debt ceiling to March 2019, which White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders hailed as a decision that would move Congress away from “crisis-to-crisis budgeting.”
The deal is backed by McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), and will almost certainly be cleared as part of a stopgap funding measure by the Senate before a Feb. 8 deadline to prevent a shutdown.
It is not entirely sure the package will win enough support to pass the House, however.
It does not include language sheltering thousands of immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children who could face deportation next month.
