Appropriations chairman bullish on full-year spending bills after shutdown

Appropriations chairman bullish on full-year spending bills after shutdown

Appropriators could finish drafting a compromise version of a three-bill spending package for fiscal 2026 in “two or three days” once the partial government shutdown is over, House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., said last week. The shutdown has stalled work on full-year appropriations for more than three weeks, but Cole said lawmakers in both chambers are close to finishing compromise drafts of the Agriculture, Legislative Branch and…