WASHINGTON �� Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he's "very confident" that Congress can pass a funding bill to avoid a government shutdown at the end of April.
McConnell said on "Fox News Sunday" that the House and Senate appropriations committees were "working on the bills on a bipartisan basis" to fund the government after April 28.
"We'll be talking to Senate Democrats," he said. "It will require 60 votes."
McConnell, R-Ky., Republicans and Democrats would "negotiate" over the Trump administration's priorities: initial funding to build a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico, cuts to domestic programs, and increases in military spending.
The resulting bill would fund the government through Sept. 30, the end of the current fiscal year, McConnell said.
McConnell said he is "confident Senate Democrats are not going to want to shut down the government" because Congress, rather than the president, tends to get the blame in public opinion when such events occur.
