Budget Deal Seems Out of Reach
June 25, 2019 at 6:35 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Playbook: Over the last few days, Republican and Democratic aides have come to the conclusion that a budget deal is almost definitely out of reach. Time has run too short. Meetings arent getting scheduled anymore. Its all but over, for the moment.
September will turn into a rush to pass a short-term funding bill to avert a shutdown come Sept. 30. The options will probably include a stopgap that funds government at current levels to some point in 2020, or a short-term, three-month deal to allow for Congress to try to strike a larger budget accord that would hike spending beyond 2019 levels. More than $100 billion in cuts take hold in January 2020, and pretty much everyone in Washington wants to avoid that.
So its totally possible and even seems likely that Washington will be thrown into a holiday season crisis as the White House, which considers itself savvy dealmakers, and Congress try to get a large-scale budget deal to head off $100 billion in budget cuts. Because why shouldnt Congress create a crisis over the holiday season
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