Congress Faces Government Funding That Runs Out Friday

NextGov: Congress is staring down another expiring continuing resolution this week.

Lawmakers have been working on an omnibus spending bill but familiar political fights are getting in the way: border wall funding, Planned Parenthood funding and unique to this CR, funding for a rail tunnel project in New Jersey and New York called the Gateway Project. 

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., on March 8 said he expected to bring the bill to the floor last week. That timeline didn’t work out. 

This CR, the fifth of the fiscal year, expires Friday.

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