Key: House Democrats announced their funding allocation earlier this year and passed much of their spending bills in two big packages over the summer, while Senate Republicans only released their numbers earlier this month and have not yet passed a bill.
The rapporteurs and staff have been working for days to resolve a number of unresolved issues between the two groups, including the classification of veterans ’medical expenses, nuclear clean-up funding and public unemployment costs, as unemployment remains high during the epidemic, according to close collaborators. negotiations.
It is not clear whether incentives will accompany the government funding package. Senate Republicans have become increasingly pessimistic about linking coronavirus exemption to the spending bill, while Democrats have remained somewhat optimistic.
“We were working on the omnibus account and I thought it would be an element of coronavirus relief,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said at a weekly press conference on Friday. – We hope so.
Supreme Senate Republicans have indicated that the White House will sign with an omnibus, not another ongoing resolution that will keep federal funding flat while avoiding downtime. But officials ’assurances about what President Donald Trump would eventually support were somewhat vague.
White House cabinet chief Mark Meadows told reporters last week on Capitol Hill that he could not “guarantee” the government to stop at the table, but “it is paramount to ensure that we fund our government.”
