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Federal grant rule, other add-ons are points of contention
Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, arrives for the Senate Republicans’ lunch meeting on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Posted July 31, 2026 at 5:35pm
Release of Senate stopgap bill could slip as negotiations drag
The timeline is slipping for senators to strike a bipartisan deal on a short-term funding patch before their August recess as leadership struggles to work out the finer details. Senior appropriators had been hopeful of unveiling text before the weekend for a stopgap measure expected to keep the government funded into early December. But sources […]
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