The agreement means the Senate is going to finish its work on the bill before the weekend and well before financial markets open on Friday morning. Here's more.
agreed to vote on 11 amendments that are expected to fail. They also entered a joint statement into the congressional record dealing with demands from defense hawks for a supplemental defense bill and processing the annual appropriations bills. Senate Republicans had spent Thursday smarting over defense spending levels they view as far too low.
Without the agreement, which requires buy-in from all 100 senators, a vote on the debt deal could have pushed well into next week — past the default deadline. said he wants written assurances of a plan to include a supplemental with funding bills. Notably, Congress hasn’t passed all 12 appropriations bills on time since 1996.. “We want a public statement that [Schumer] will in a timely fashion do the approps and the supplemental.”
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