Yet Another Budget Battle Looms
Posted at 12:15 p.m. on Feb. 25
As budget gridlock continues to overwhelm sequestration negotiations, the Wall Street Journal looks to the next budget battle facing lawmakers: “Congress must pass a so-called continuing resolution by the end of March to keep funding government operations.”
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) “have begun discussing a bill being prepared by House Republicans to fund government operations through September. Republicans want the bill to extend operating funds at the lower levels set to kick in Friday and to give more flexibility to the Pentagon to manage its cuts.”
“A White House official said the administration wouldn’t go along with such a plan to extend the lower spending levels. And Democrats are insisting that the House GOP bill also give new latitude to domestic agencies as well as the Pentagon.”
