{"id":347500,"date":"2025-12-14T02:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T02:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/347500\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T02:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T02:51:12","slug":"us-congress-drags-on-full-year-funding-bills-risking-second-govt-shutdown-eurasia-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/347500\/","title":{"rendered":"US Congress Drags On Full Year Funding Bills, Risking Second Govt Shutdown \u2013 Eurasia Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Boudreaux<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/national\/article_6eb22521-d543-407b-b17c-326eeddd13bd.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Center Square<\/a>) \u2013 Despite only having until the end of January to pass the remaining nine annual government funding bills, Congress has so far made minimal progress.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. House is not planning on advancing anything before its Christmas recess, with all of leadership\u2019s focus currently on\u00a0 a healthcare policy plan.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans unveiled the text of the plan \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rules.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/rules.house.gov\/files\/documents\/file_3948.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Friday night, a counterproposal to Democrats\u2019 failed bill to extend the Obamacare Premium Tax Credits.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate, meanwhile, is currently stuck on a proposed five-bill minibus due to a couple of recalcitrant Republicans fighting over earmarks within some of the appropriations bills.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Congress has only seven weeks to find a solution before the government runs out of money, and it can take two to three weeks to pass appropriations bills through both chambers even after the text is agreed to.<\/p>\n<p>The minibus, which hasn\u2019t been publicly released yet, purportedly has $5 billion in earmarks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The package includes fiscal year 2026 funding for federal agencies that handle Transportation and Housing and Urban Development; Defense; Labor and Health and Human Services; Commerce, and Justice, Science; and Interior.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Most federal government agencies are still running off of appropriations levels from fiscal year 2024. Congress never passed a real budget in fiscal year 2025, instead punting forward the shutdown deadline via three consecutive Continuing Resolutions.<\/p>\n<p>The government then shut down Oct. 1, when Democrats refused to vote for a fourth CR due to Republicans\u2019 refusal to extend the expiring enhanced Obamacare subsidies.<\/p>\n<p>After a record long 43-day shutdown, enough Democrats voted to reopen the government by passing a CR. Congress also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/national\/article_e61bb11f-68a4-4705-9ee0-61665af9eea5.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">passed a three-bill minibus<\/a>\u00a0that same day, which knocked out three of the twelve fiscal year 2026 appropriations bills.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It authorized full-year funds for Military Construction and Veterans Affairs; the Food and Drug Administration, Agriculture and Rural Development; and the Legislative Branch. Agencies covered under the remaining nine bills \u2013 including those in the five-bill minibus currently under consideration \u2013 are covered by the CR.<\/p>\n<p>This means that if Congress does not pass those bills in some form by Feb. 1, the end date of the CR, they risk a partial government shutdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Boudreaux (The Center Square) \u2013 Despite only having until the end of January to pass the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-347500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}