Punchbowl News: “We expect Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to file cloture today on the vehicle for a short-term continuing resolution designed to keep federal agencies open past the Nov. 17 deadline. Schumer’s move will set up an initial procedural vote for early next week.”
“There’s no end-date on a possible Senate CR yet, but mid-December is very likely. This will enrage House Republicans, who’ve been very clear that they don’t want to get jammed up against the holidays by the Senate. But any such CR proposal will get more than the 60 Senate votes needed to move forward. In other words, the Senate is preparing to jam the slow-moving House — if needed.”
Playbook: “The White House has no preference when it comes to a CR’s length. The Senate seems interested in a short-term one that would go only into December in hopes of forcing action on a catchall fiscal 2024 spending bill before the holidays. Meanwhile, the House has suggested that it prefers a longer CR. Biden aides say the GOP’s proposed ‘laddered CR’ is already dead.”
