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• Funding deal could spare agencies another shutdown fight - August 4, 2026

• The short-term spending agreement would keep the government funded through December while pausing a proposed overhaul of federal grant decisions.

  Jacob Fischler, Government Executive

  Leaders of the Senate Appropriations Committee announced a bipartisan deal over the weekend that would keep the federal government funded through Dec. 11 and pause the Trump administration’s effort to add controversial new criteria for federal grants.
  
  The agreement — which Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine,, and Vice Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., released Sunday — would avoid an Oct. 1 government shutdown and keep federal spending at current levels, punting debates about full-year spending past the midterm elections. It would also extend authorization for the federal fund for highway and transit.
  
  The Senate bill differs considerably from the more partisan stopgap spending measure the House passed last month, with Republicans providing nearly all the votes in support.

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