Before year’s end, lawmakers will have to keep the government open after current funding expires Dec. 16, and tackle Medicare cuts on the horizon, making for a hectic post-election session.
| Samuel Corum/Getty ImagesRemember the fiscal cliff? This holiday season, Congress’ to-do list will make that look like a jump off a diving board.
Congressional leaders seem amenable to striking a bipartisan year-end spending deal that averts a shutdown on Dec. 16 and boosts federal agency budgets, wiping the slate clean before the new Congress in January. Republicans have threatened to use the debt ceiling as leverage for cuts to social spending programs, such as Social Security and Medicare, an idea loathed by the other party.
Yarmuth said he’s ready to deal with the debt ceiling in the lame duck, although he’d rather get rid of it altogether — a notion that President Joe Biden opposes.has already promised to include additional aid for Ukraine in the year-end government funding deal, while more Republicans have cooled off when it comes to doling out further military assistance.
“Republicans and Democrats may feel like there’s an imperative to do something to help people in a recession, but it will be one of those hard-fought negotiations,” Wessel said.Supporters hold signs during an event on health care Sept. 13, 2017 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. | Alex Wong/Getty Images
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