With partisan rancor on Capitol Hill rising, Pentagon’s stable funding held hostage
by Jamie McIntyre
| November 01, 2019 07:02 AM
YOU CAN’T SPELL CRISIS WITHOUT ‘CR’: With the deadline to pass a measure that will fully fund the Pentagon less than three week away, the partisan divide over border wall funding and impeachment is threatening to derail efforts at reaching a compromise.
Now, with the holidays approaching, there is talk of extending a temporary stopgap continuing resolution, or “CR†in Congressional parlance, until February, five months into the fiscal year.
Yesterday Senate Democrats filibustered a funding measure that includes $695 billion for the Pentagon after Republicans rejected an amendment that would have blocked the president from taking money Congress has appropriated for military construction projects and using to pay for erecting additional barriers along the U.S. border with Mexico.
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