Ed O’Keefe writes the budget deal allocates $521 billion for defense activities and $492 billion for non-military discretionary programs.
âThere’s no reason the government should shut down,â said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), according to The Post.
âAnd weâre ready to pass a year-long spending bill to take care of this,” he added.
The bill would provide service members and federal employees with a salary increase of 1 percent.
USA Today reports lawmakers are also preparing to introduce a stopgap measure to head off a possible shutdown on Thursday night as well as to give Congress more time to consider the omnibus legislation.
Republicans proposed short-term funding for the Department of Homeland Security through the $1-trillion deal in order to allow Republicans to respond to President Obama’s executive action on immigration, according to the newspaper.