The agreement, the details of which are yet unclear, may not have come in time to prevent vast swaths of the government, including the Homeland Security, Defense and State departments, from at least partially shuttering just after midnight Saturday. The House, where the measure will originate, requires 72 hours’ notice before voting on legislation. The Senate requires 30 hours of debate, unless all 100 senators give consent to move faster. The bills were not yet released by Monday evening and may take more time to finalize.
The result could be a brief shutdown over the weekend while House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) scramble to convince members to vote hastily. Already one group of hard-line House Republicans has urged colleagues not to support the measure without harsh new immigration and border security policies. And one Democratic senator has signaled he could slow the bill’s progress without a separate deal on emergency funding for Ukraine.
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