US set funding deal for next year to avert partial government shutdown

WASHINGTON: Senior negotiators in the US Congress on Thursday reached a tentative deal with the White House on a series of bills to fund federal agencies through Sept 30, 2020, which would avert partial government shutdowns next week.

While some technical issues still have to be resolved, the source said that major disagreements between Democrats and Republicans have been worked out. Federal agencies have been operating on temporary funding since Oct 1, the beginning of the current fiscal year, because Congress and the White House had been unable to agree on full-year appropriations for agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security, which administers many of the Trump administration’s controversial immigration policies.

Some of the same thorny issues, including billing US taxpayers for a wall that Trump vowed in 2016 would be paid for by Mexico, were at the heart of the just-completed negotiations.

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