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• Congress aims to punt agency funding to March, but hurdles remain ahead of shutdown deadline - December 18, 2024

• White House has warned that such a plan, without additional funds, could lead to hiring freezes at agencies.

  Eric Katz, Government Executive

  Congressional leaders labored this week to put forward a stopgap funding bill that would avert a shutdown Friday evening, with negotiators finally breaking through Tuesday evening after an extended struggle to finalize a slew of additional funding and policy provisions that will be attached to the measure.

  The bill is set to keep agencies funded at their current levels through March 14, staving off a shutdown just before the holiday season. Lawmakers are opting to once again punt on full-year government funding, delaying those bills to set line-by-line spending levels across government until President Trump takes office and a new, Republican-controlled Congress is sworn in. 

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