WASHINGTON—An agreement backed by President-elect Donald Trump to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the week has been reached and a vote is set for the night of Dec. 19, The Epoch Times has learned.
It is a pared-down 116-page funding bill, known as a continuing resolution (CR), as an earlier proposal seemed poised to fail.
The new bill would extend government funding through March 14. It would include a one-year farm bill extension in addition to suspending the debt ceiling until Jan. 30, 2027.
Trump called the bill a “SUCCESS in Washington” and “a very good deal for the American people.”…