Rather than a funding bill that extends through the end of this week (that was the talk on Friday evening), it looks like Congress will approve a huge $1 trillion-plus spending bill that would fund the day-to-day
operations through Oct. 1. It is not a "done deal," but it does look like the bill will pass through Congress on a bipartisan vote. It funds Planned Parenthood and omits The Wall.
I hasten to add that there is no reason to believe that work on the design features of the wall and legal efforts effecting "right of way easements" is not continuing, however.
If you trust the President, you believe that a "wall" will be built.
Understand that this spending bill is necessary because the Obama Administration failed (as usual) to complete its budgetary responsibility. The government is working off the last fiscal year of Obama, which does not end until October 1 of this year. In fact, the Democrat party no longer believes in a "budget," and did not pass a single, comprehensive, budget for the first six years of the Obama Error as prescribed by law.
Work continues on the new budget as we speak. That budget, President Trump's first budget, has to be ready by October 1. If his promises are pushed aside in that budget, serious issues face the GOP and its future.
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