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• After Senate moves bipartisan spending bills, Dem leaders request sit down on shutdown-aversion plan - August 6, 2025

• The Senate is moving fiscal 2026 funding measures with ease but there is still no overall strategy in Congress.

  Eric Katz, Government Executive

  The House and Senate Democratic leaders are asking their Republican counterparts to meet regarding government funding for fiscal 2026, warning that a failure to do so could result in a government shutdown come October.

  The Aug. 4 letter followed the Senate last week approving the first three appropriations bills for next year of the 12 Congress must pass annually. The bills to fund the departments of Veterans Affairs and Agriculture, as well as the legislative branch, won broad, bipartisan support. Unlike those put forward by House Republicans, the measures would provide modest spending boosts for the covered agencies. 

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