{"id":20426,"date":"2025-11-13T19:30:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20426"},"modified":"2025-11-13T19:30:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:30:33","slug":"the-next-shutdown-threat-is-around-the-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20426","title":{"rendered":"The next shutdown threat is around the corner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;The bipartisan deal to end the funding lapse includes a long-term agreement on just three of the dozen bills lawmakers need to finish each year to keep cash flowing to federal programs. And those three measures are some of the easiest to rally around \u2014 including money for veterans programs, food aid, assistance for farmers and the operations of Congress itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Together, they represent only about 10 percent of the roughly $1.8 trillion Congress doles out each year to federal agencies. Under the deal, everything else is funded on a temporary basis through Jan. 30 at levels first set by Congress in March 2024, when Joe Biden was president.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That leaves behind major open decisions about the vast majority of discretionary dollars \u2014 including for the military and public health programs \u2014 along with the stickiest policy issues. It doesn\u2019t help that House and Senate leaders still haven\u2019t agreed on an overall total for fiscal 2026 spending, amid GOP divisions over how deeply to cut.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/11\/13\/shutdown-appropriations-january-30-00649414\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/11\/13\/shutdown-appropriations-january-30-00649414<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The bipartisan deal to end the funding lapse includes a long-term agreement on just three of the dozen bills lawmakers need to finish each year to keep cash flowing to federal programs. And those three measures are some of the easiest to rally around \u2014 including money for veterans programs, food aid, assistance for farmers and the operations of Congress itself.<\/p>\n<p>Together, they represent only about 10 percent of the roughly $1.8 trillion Congress doles out each year to federal agencies. Under the deal, everything else is funded on a temporary basis through Jan. 30 at levels first set by Congress in March 2024, when Joe Biden was president.  <\/p>\n<p>That leaves behind major open decisions about the vast majority of discretionary dollars \u2014 including for the military and public health programs \u2014 along with the stickiest policy issues. It doesn\u2019t help that House and Senate leaders still haven\u2019t agreed on an overall total for fiscal 2026 spending, amid GOP divisions over how deeply to cut.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/11\/13\/shutdown-appropriations-january-30-00649414<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[542,1262,1817,1193,509,506,1103,279],"class_list":["post-20426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-congress","tag-democrats","tag-government-shutdown","tag-government-spending","tag-politics","tag-republicans","tag-shutdowns","tag-spending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20427,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20426\/revisions\/20427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}