Congress Considers Delaying Spending Talks Until After Impeachment
- Some spending negotiators favor stopgap bill into February
- McConnell, Hoyer push for resolution to budget impasse now
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Democrats and Republicans in Congress are deliberating whether to push the deadline to fund the government into early February to avoid having a budget fight amid an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump that’s set to stretch at least into December.
That would mean enacting another stopgap spending bill to avert a government shutdown when the current short-term funding runs out Nov. 21, assuming the two sides don’t be able to agree on a budget plan by then.