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From The Guardian
Senators plan to vote on advancing a House-passed stopgap funding bill as early as Sunday night, with the understanding that it would be amended to combine a short-term funding measure with a package of three full-year appropriations bills, the Senate’s Republican majority leader, John Thune, said.
From WaPo
The agreement would also aim to reverse more than 4,000 federal layoffs the Trump administration attempted to implement earlier in the shutdown. It also includes language that would prevent future layoffs through Jan. 30 in a federal workforce already reeling from tens of thousands of layoffs earlier this year.
The minibus appropriations package consists of three bills to fund military construction, veterans affairs, the Department of Agriculture and the legislative branch through fiscal 2026.
Sounds like the main drivers of the minibus negotiations from the Democrats side (negotiations that have been going on for some time) are Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.) and Maggie Hassan (N.H.) and perhaps other ranking members of the relevant committees.
Jeanne Shaheen is the Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. the Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense and the Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs
Senator Maggie Hassan is the ranking member of the Joint Economic Committee and the Subcommittee on Health Care of the Senate Finance Committee.
Some are reporting that the minibus package does not include some of the cuts that were in HR-1 (MAGA Murder Budget). Text has been released, but I can't find specifics of what the Republicans have agreed to jettison or scale back on. Who knows? Maybe they quietly jettisoned the cuts to SNAP in the USDA bill and aren't being noisy about it because they don't want a bruhaha about it from the felon and he'd be clueless if fox doesn't report it.
Others reportedly in on the negotiations, some of which are likely to be Yes votes tonight (if there ever is a vote tonight): Sens. Jacky Rosen (Nev.), Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.), Jon Ossoff (Ga.), Gary Peters (Mich.) and Dick Durbin (Ill.)
Apparently, whatever wins they got into the minibus are enough for the necessary handful of Democrats to accept Thune's "handshake" agreement to put a bill on extending the ACA subsides to a vote in the Senate in December. That doesn't actually matter much. Johnson says he won't put ACA subsidies to a House vote, but he's getting pressure from his own people, so if Thune comes through and an ACA extension does pass the Senate in December, he will be hard pressed to keep it from going to the House floor.
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from NBC:
The Senate could start voting on the bill as early as Sunday night. Final passage through the Senate could be quick, but any one senator who opposes the deal could drag it out for days.
If it passes, it would then head to the House, which has been on recess since September. And it is not clear that the deal has the support of House Democrats.
Rand Paul has already said he would drag it out if the agriculture part of the minibus doesn't give him what he wants on hemp for his state.
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