Fights over abortion and President Donald Trump’s US-Mexico border wall have thrown Senate efforts to vance $1.4 trillion worth of ncy spending bills into disarray, threatening one of Washington’s few bipartisan accomplishments this year. A government shutdown remains unlikely, but ncies face weeks or months on autopilot while frozen at this year’s levels if logjam isn’t broken. At issue are 12 annual budget bills to fund day-to-day operations of government. bills are needed to fill in details of this summer’s budget and debt deal — which reversed cuts scheduled to slash Pentagon and domestic programs and increased government’s borrowing cap so it won’t default on its payments and Treasury tes. 

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That’s created a real problem: Sen. Patrick Leahy

Sweeping votes on July’s budget blueprint were a kumbaya moment in Trump’s polarized capital. But Senate Appropriations Committee, tasked with filling in details, has been beset by infighting in vance of a bill drafting session on Thursday. Democrats complain that panel chairman Richard Shelby, R-Ala., following le of Majority Leer Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is shortchanging popular health and education measure to fund Trump’s $5 billion requests for his border wall. y are also furious about Trump’s moves to raid $3.6 billion in military base construction projects to pay for 11 ditional border fence segments totalling 175 miles (282 kilometres) in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.

“That’s created a real problem,” said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., most senior member of Appropriations Committee. “To take money from substandard schools for children of military people ... that’s left a very b taste.”

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Durbin’s threat doesn’t seem to have Republicans on edge

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., is poised with an amendment to an almost $700 billion Pentagon funding bill to block Trump’s unprecedented fiscal maeuvres, and he has several potential GOP allies on committee. Durbin’s threat doesn’t seem to have Republicans on edge, but Republicans say that Democrats such as Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., a savvy panel insider, are breaking summertime promises to avoid ding “poison pills” to measures that could bog m down or attract Trump veto promises.

In particular, Murray is pressing to overturn a Trump executive order that takes away federal family planning funds from organizations like Planned Parenthood that counsel women about ir abortion options. stakes were raised last month when Planned Parenthood anunced it would stop accepting Title X federal family planning funds rar than comply with a Department of Health and Human Services edict to comply with abortion counselling ban. Two Planned Parenthood clinics in Ohio closed this week. Murray’s amendment would likely pass Appropriations panel, where two pro-abortion rights GOP women would likely side with her. Facing that prospect, Shelby dropped health funding measure from nda, along with a foreign aid bill that also faced an abortion controversy. “His gag order changed Congress’ intent” to award family planning grants to organizations such as Planned Parenthood, Murray said. “Title X has h bipartisan support forever.”

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A long history of smoothing over its differences on abortion

panel has a long history of smoothing over its differences on abortion in interest of getting its legislation passed, however, and both sides want to press on and work out challenges. House members like Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., are er to start House-Senate conference committee talks aimed at legislation both chambers can pass, as is McConnell. “We’re hopefully going to get past this little rough patch and get back to agreement we all signed onto,” McConnell said Wednesday. “We’ll get it done because re’s a desire to get it done,” Leahy said. “We kw how to do it.”

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