00:00There are 20 days left until the federal government runs out of funding and Congress is nowhere
00:05near a deal to avoid a shutdown.
00:07Here's where things stand.
00:10For the bill to be approved, it must be bipartisan.
00:13They need at least seven Democrats to get it through the Senate.
00:16That's where things get tricky.
00:18Republicans say Democrats need to agree to spend less money than last year.
00:22And it's incumbent upon all of us to do it with the high national debt.
00:26We're open to that.
00:27But the ultimate question of whether there's going to be a government shutdown at the end
00:30of the month is going to be up to congressional Democrats.
00:33Democrats want to reverse some of the spending cuts that Republicans in the Trump administration
00:37have made over the last eight months.
00:39The bottom line is that the bill they proposed can't get our votes.
00:44It doesn't meet the needs of the American people, plain and simple.
00:48So there's a few options on the table.
00:50All of them include a continuing resolution, which is a temporary measure to keep the government
00:55funded at its current levels until they can come up with something permanent that will
00:59last for the entirety of fiscal year 2026.
01:03In no particular order, lawmakers could approve a clean CR, which is a copy and paste of the
01:08current budget.
01:09That could last into November or all the way into the first quarter of 2026, depending on
01:14how much time leadership thinks they need to negotiate.
01:17They could also do what's called a mini bus and CR.
01:21That means they would approve fiscal year 2026 funding for certain departments and use a
01:26CR to fund the rest.
01:28Lawmakers have made progress on the bills that fund military construction and veterans affairs,
01:33the departments of health and human services, education, labor, agriculture and the FDA.
01:39Congress is supposed to approve 12 separate spending bills every year, each of which fund a different
01:44department and agency within the federal government.
01:47They're not going to hit the September 30th deadline this year, but they could make it
01:51by the end of the year if they get that continuing resolution passed.
01:55It's worth noting that the federal government was funded by a continuing resolution for all
02:00of fiscal year 2025.
02:02I'm Ray Bogan for Straight Hour News.
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