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Approps Timeline Slips

With Congressional spending authority set to expire midnight on Friday, the likelihood of a deal before the deadline has become increasingly more unlikely.

Without any apparent consensus on a broader funding agreement, the Congressional leadership is not set to file an omnibus appropriations bill Monday night, as required by House rules, for consideration later this week as leadership had planned.  Last week, House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY) said he hoped to have an Omnibus bill drafted and ready to unveil at some point on Monday, which would have allowed the House a midweek vote.

Negotiations over the FY2016 appropriations and tax extender package are ongoing, but how to deal with contentious policy riders, which the House Democrats rejected last week, have not moved forward. It is now highly likely Congress will pass a short-term CR. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has also said that there is a possibility Congress will work through the weekend.

Congress is scheduled to be in session until December 18th. The longer Congress is unable to come to a resolution about the omnibus and tax extender legislation, the more likely a long-term Continuing Resolution will be the funding vehicle for FY 2016..