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Senate leader credits Collins-led effort for bipartisan short-term funding to avoid shutdown
Summary
Leader Thune said the Senate advanced a bipartisan funding plan to carry government operations beyond the election into December and described funding the government as "job one."
Leader Thune told reporters the Senate is working to fund the government through a short-term proposal crafted with bipartisan support.
"Credit to, chair Collins and her team, working with, Democrats and Republicans to come up with a plan that will fund the government beyond the election into December," he said, adding that the chamber took a bill to the floor with "a very big bipartisan vote."
Thune framed funding as essential to avoid another shutdown, saying "it's important, in my view that we demonstrate to the American people that we can do job 1" and called taking a shutdown "off the table" a priority. He said the Senate intends to continue work between now and the end of the week to complete that objective.
The leader did not provide specifics on spending levels or which appropriations vehicles the measure would use.
