Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-WA) confirmed on Tuesday that she is working on a continuing resolution to provide additional funds for disaster relief, assistance for Ukraine, and firefighter pay.
The supplemental spending bill has broad support across both parties in the Senate, though whether Speaker Kevin McCarthy would bring it up for a vote is unclear. If he does so, it may imperil his speakership. Speaking to reporters at a press briefing on Tuesday, Murray acknowledged that the Senate was plowing ahead anyway.
The federal government runs out of funding on Sept. 30, meaning the House and Senate each have less than 10 in-session days to find a resolution to prevent a shutdown. Further complicating matters, House and Senate appropriators have spent months marking up government funding bills at different spending levels.
Senators across the ideological spectrum were furious over the defense caps in the deal, which would put the Pentagon out of step with the inflation rate. Facing a possible mutiny from defense hawks threatening to tank the agreement, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell pledged to bring a supplemental defense spending bill up for a vote later in the year.
Schumer noted that the current government funding bills were being written with too little money for Ukraine and disaster aid at the same press conference on Tuesday, saying,"Look, the House bill leaves out disaster aid completely. We believe in disaster aid, and we want to come together in the Senate on a bipartisan CR."
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