WASHINGTON _ Appropriators have cut a deal to keep all of the government funded through at least Dec. 7.
House Appropriations Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen announced at a meeting of House and Senate conferees on the combined spending bill for Defense, and Labor-Health and Human Services-Education, that the conference report will include a continuing resolution through that date, for departments and agencies not otherwise funded.
"We have reached resolution on all items and completed our work on these bills," the New Jersey Republican said of the two bills in conference Thursday morning.
That means at least five full spending bills will be signed into law by President Donald Trump ahead of Oct. 1, with the first bundle of three bills set to clear the House with adoption of a conference report Thursday afternoon.
