The short-term measure that is currently funding the majority of the government functions is set to expire Friday night/Saturday morning, when Congress is scheduled to begin a two-week spring recess. Congress is currently working on a massive omnibus spending package that would fund the government through the rest of FY2018. To provide additional budget room for the crafting of such a deal, a larger two-year budget agreement that was reached last month provides an extra $63 billion for non-defense and $80 billion for defense discretionary programs for the remainder of FY2018, which ends on September 30.
While agreements between the two parties have been reached on the vast majority of the decisions around funding levels for different programs and agencies, the sticking points have been a number of policy issues, including whether they would be addressed in the package. These include issues such as a fix for DACA, annual fights over abortion, and funding for a border wall sought by the Administration.
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