A Bad Omen for the Fall

Punchbowl News: “The outlook for a government-funding deal is pretty poor right now. A shutdown or CR – or both – is a real possibility heading into the Sept. 30 deadline. Or potentially a hybrid situation where Congress passes some spending bills and then adopts a short-term CR (say two or three months) for the other federal agencies.”

“That would leave Washington lurching along from shutdown threat to shutdown threat throughout 2025-26.”