House urged to ‘go ugly early’
By Scott Wong and Mike Lillis - 05/31/17 06:00 AM EDT
Senior House appropriators are urging GOP leaders to “go ugly early” and pass a massive 2018 spending package before the August recess instead of waiting until the last minute and risk a government shutdown this fall.
The number of must-do items, including extending a popular children’s health benefit program and reauthorizing the Federal Aviation Administration, are piling up for September, and appropriators want to prevent a deadline crunch — and avoid another stopgap spending bill at Obama-era levels — by expediting the timeline for the spending bills.
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