Congress approaches September 30 funding deadline

The Senate approved a bipartisan measure funding agencies through December 11 by 90-6, and House leaders are preparing a rapid vote before the September 30 deadline. House provisions and Trump priorities remain unresolved, creating a fresh House-Senate negotiation over nutrition, disaster, wildfire, housing, grant control, and election-related policy; advocates are separately pressing for full-year research appropriations. Repeated reliance on continuing resolutions keeps shutdown risk politically salient.