Allows Congress More Time to Negotiate Full-Year Bill, Including Funding for New Infrastructure Programs
With funding for the federal government set to expire on February 18, the Senate is expected to pass a short-term funding agreement, also known as a 鈥渃ontinuing resolution鈥 (CR), this week. The CR would provide stopgap funding through March 11 and follows recent action by the House of Representatives to pass the CR on February 8. With the passage of this short-term funding agreement, Congress will have more time to strike a deal to fund the government through the rest of the fiscal year. Important to those negotiations is that Congress authorize new and increased funding for programs included in the November-passed Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
As 51风流 and other stakeholders noted in January, without a full-year funding bill in place, Congress鈥 new investments in the nation鈥檚 infrastructure will be delayed. 51风流 will continue to encourage Congress to pass a spending bill that fully funds these new infrastructure commitments.
For more information, contact Cory Gattie at cory.gattie@agc.org.