Politico: “Since the funding measure is expected to be the last major bill Congress passes this year, lawmakers have been eyeing it as a path to clearing several other major policy priorities, including a package to authorize expiring health care programs, a long-sought bipartisan deal to overhaul rules for permitting energy projects and a measure to restrict U.S. investments to China.”
Playbook: “They’ll probably need to notch a deal today if the House is going to adhere to its 72-hour-notice rule and still beat the Friday midnight shutdown deadline. The vote-counting around the deal is especially tricky in the House, given that Johnson will probably need to pass it under suspension of the rules (i.e., with a two-thirds majority). That means he either needs to deliver a lot more Republican votes than he’s used to, or give in to Democratic demands to settle the farm issue.”
