WASHINGTON — Senate appropriators on Sunday unveiled a bipartisan continuing resolution that would keep federal funding flowing until Dec. 11, but rejected a White House request to provide $1 billion for the Trump-class battleship program.
If passed, the continuing resolution (CR) would prevent the government from shutting down on Oct. 1, when fiscal 2027 starts and as lawmakers depart Capitol Hill ahead of midterm elections in November. The bill is set to move through a procedural vote tonight.
The Senate’s CR is different from the House-passed version in several key aspects. For one, it extends funding for a slightly longer period of time than the House bill, which funds federal agencies until Dec. 4.
The Senate bill also contains a number of special funding exceptions, known as “anomalies,” by the White House — which were not submitted before the House passed its own version of the bill. However, Senate appropriators did not include most of the anomalies tied to the Defense Department.
Continuing resolutions typically only fund federal agencies at the prior year’s spending rate, but anomaly requests can be added to expedite money for new or existing programs or purchase more equipment than allotted in the last fiscal year. One of those anomalies for this CR was a request by the Pentagon for Congress to include $1 billion for the Trump-class battleship.
