Senate Leaders Set up Dueling Votes on Stopgap Funding Bills

Senate expected to vote Friday on dueling stopgap bills

U.S. senators are expected to vote Friday on competing stopgap bills that both aim to temporarily fund the government past the Sept. 30 deadline, according to POLITICO.

Senate leaders set up dueling votes on stopgap funding bills

Top Senate Republicans and Democrats reached a deal Thursday night to tee up two votes on Friday on the two parties’ competing approaches to averting a partial government shutdown when current agency funding expires at the end of the month. Under the agreement announced by Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., assuming the House passes the GOP-drafted, seven-week continuing resolution, then th…