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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Congress crambles on the government spending bill with Republican leaders in the Senate and the House diverging on the right strategy.

Welcome on Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

We are joined today by my colleagues, columnist Kim Strassel and editorial board member Kate Batchelder O'Dell.

The deadline to fund the government is December 16th. That's Friday.

Two days from now as we record this and still it seems like the ball is up in the air.

The latest is a reported framework for an omnibus spending package, something on the order of $1.7 trillion.

And here's Mitch McConnell making the argument for doing that at a press conference on Tuesday.

I think we're very close to getting an omnibus appropriation bill that would be, I think broadly appealing.

It would meet the defense number of the NDAA without having to pay a bonus above what President Biden asked for.

For domestic priorities of the Democrats.

Kim, what's your read of where this stands and what is likely to happen here in the coming days?

So it does sound as though they have reached a broad agreement by which that would be the top two appropriators in the Senate, Richard Shelby and Patrick Leahy.

And then the Democratic appropriator in the House rose into Loro.

Interestingly, the Republican top appropriator, Kate Granger, is not taken part in any of these discussions because Kevin McCarthy, the incoming speaker,

well, we think, does not support doing this omnibus bill.

But those other major players and including McConnell and Schumer look as though they're on board.

What the Republicans have been demanding from the start is that domestic discretionary spending doesn't come in above 1.65 trillion, which is what Biden had requested.

For a while, Democrats were looking to make that number higher. They wanted to maintain what you call parity.

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