Republicans say they are close to finalizing a package of full-year funding measures for select federal agencies — a critical piece of bipartisan negotiations over the terms for ending the prolonged government shutdown.
“The mini-package should be nearing completion, and that will be the vehicle” for the stopgap spending bill to reopen the government, Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Wednesday after a closed-door GOP lunch.
Thune met Tuesday night with Democratic negotiators on the shutdown, including Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), who caucuses with Democrats. Bipartisan negotiators want the Senate to…
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