Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Dec. 6 that lawmakers are at a “significant impasse” on reaching an agreement on a must-pass spending bill, and indicated that a short-term continuing resolution (CR) may be necessary instead.
“We’re at a pretty significant impasse,” McConnell told reporters on Tuesday. “Time is ticking. We have not been able to agree on a top line yet, and I think it’s becoming increasingly likely that we might need to do a short-term CR into early next year.”
Government funding is currently set to run out on Dec. 16, leaving the lame-duck Democratic Congress with two options: a full-scale omnibus spending bill that would cover all appropriations for fiscal year (FY) 2023, or a short-term CR that would expire sometime after the new Congress sits….