Congress Buys Time for Relief Package

Playbook: “It’s now certain that Congress is going to pass a one-week stopgap funding bill, which will avert a shutdown at the end of this week, and give negotiators time to continue to try to cobble together an omnibus bill and Covid relief package. (Covid relief has really a tricky path. As does an omni.)”

“The House will vote first on the one-week stopgap Wednesday. The Senate wants the continuing resolution ASAP to avoid any uniquely senatorial drama — they prefer Tuesday.”

“What’s this all mean? The drama of this week now leaks into next. You mean you didn’t want to be thinking about government funding a few days before Christmas?”