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is fueling America's workforce by visitingpool News. It's Wednesday, March 20th, 2024. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. number one, where things stand on government funding.

Number two, Senate Republicans start thinking about life post McConnell, and number three, the latest on the vault.

All right, let's get into it this morning.

We are very focused on what is happening with government funding. It's Wednesday. The federal

government partially shuts down at midnight on Friday just to remind everybody about this

deadline and text for the six-bill minibus still hasn't been released yet. We are now told we

may not see it until Thursday. So what does that mean?

Party leaders, appropriators, and the White House very much want text out today. Yet the 118th Congress

has shown that deadlines are just dreams waiting to be crushed as we write this morning.

So don't assume anything.

This final fiscal year 2024 spending package includes, of course,

defense, homeland security, labor HHS, legislative branch financial services general government,

and state foreign operations bills.

That's basically three quarters of all federal

discretionary spending. We don't need to relitigate everything that has happened and how we got

here. Homeland Security was the big problem, of course. Those differences have been resolved.

The House is going to move first on the massive fiscal year

2024 spending package. Speaker Mike Johnson and his top lieutenants want to hold a vote on this

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