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#: House deal would keep government open through Feb. 18 but shutdown risk remains in Senate

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“#: House deal would keep government open through Feb. 18 but shutdown risk remains in Senate”

House lawmakers reached a deal to head off a government shutdown this weekend, but a group of senators could still object, making a partial lapse of some services possible.

House Appropriations Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro, a Connecticut Democrat, announced an agreement to fund the federal government through Feb. 18. Without such a stopgap budget, the government would partially shut down after midnight Friday. The measure also includes $7 billion for Afghanistan refugees.

Meanwhile, it’s unclear how the measure will fare in the Senate, where a group of Senate GOP conservatives was on Wednesday planning to object to quick consideration of such a stopgap budget without an agreement to deny money to enforce the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate.

Related: Risk of government shutdown rises as Republicans take aim at vaccine mandate

And see: Congress faces shutdown deadline, hurdles for Biden’s Build Back Better plan

Robert Schroeder

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