A key GOP appropriator spoke with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer Tuesday and again Thursday in rare bipartisan conversations involving the top Democrat as rank-and-file senators hunt for ways to end the 30-day government shutdown.
Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.), who chairs the Appropriations subcommittee on Homeland Security, confirmed she spoke to Schumer about “wanting to lay the foundation for us to be able to do our appropriations work.”
Before the Thursday conversation, Britt met with Senate Majority Leader John Thune about appropriators’ push to move the three-funding bill minibus alongside a new stopgap through mid-December.
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