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Senate Democrats and GOP plan to pass CR with scant Ukraine funding, sources say
Fox News
Senators are poised for a cloture vote to extend funding, but uncertainty lingers over provisions for disaster relief and Ukrainian aid amid looming shutdown fears.
Locking arms across the aisle, both Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., want to prevent a government shutdown that is fast approaching if a funding patch isn’t agreed on by Thursday. Senators have already lost a business day from Yom Kippur recess on Monday. Jamie Joseph is a writer who covers politics. She leads Fox News Digital coverage of the Senate.
"We now have four days to go until funding expires on Saturday at midnight, we are now right at the precipice," Schumer said Tuesday on the Senate floor. "Over the weekend, Senate Democrats and Republicans together worked in good faith to reach an agreement on a continuing resolution that will keep the government open beyond Sept. 30. We are very close to finishing our work and hope to release text very soon."