Next Week Will Be a Doozy – By Yuval Rosenberg and Michael Rainey (The Fiscal Times) / Dec 16, 2022
Welcome to the weekend! Sunday’s World Cup final between Argentina and France could be the biggest sporting event in television history. It is expected to draw a record-breaking audience of more than a billion viewers on television and streaming platforms. Who ya got?
With Short-Term Spending Bill Done, Congress Turns to Full-Year Funding
The Senate crossed a couple of big items off its year-end to-do list Thursday night, passing the annual defense policy bill and a stopgap measure to extend federal funding for one week and avert a government shutdown early Saturday.
The 71-to-19 vote buy congressional negotiators more time to finalize a roughly $1.7 trillion spending plan, known as an omnibus, that would fund the government through September.
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