Negotiators report progress toward 2022 spending deal
By Alexander Bolton - 01/13/22 01:02 PM EST
Senate and House negotiators say they are getting closer to a deal on setting the top-line spending number for an appropriations package to fund government past Feb. 18 and avoid a shutdown.
The top Democrats and Republicans on the Senate and House Appropriations Committees met Thursday morning to chart a path for reaching agreement on a fiscal year 2022 omnibus government funding bill and said they would meet again soon.
Negotiators in the so-called “Four Corners” say they’re optimistic about reaching an agreement.
“I think we have a good chance of coming together on this,” Rep. Kay Granger (Texas), the top-ranking Republican on the House Appropriations Committee, told reporters as she headed into the meeting.
One Democratic senator said he had been told that Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Pat Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sen. Richard Shelby (Ala.), the top-ranking Republican on the Senate panel, already have a tentative deal on the parameters of the legislation and now
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