: Biden White House calls for short-term funding bill to avoid government shutdown

The Biden White House’s budget office is pushing for passage of a short-term funding measure to avoid a partial federal government shutdown on Oct. 1, when the government’s 2024 fiscal year starts. “Although the crucial work continues to reach a bipartisan, bicameral agreement on fiscal year 2024 appropriations bills, it is clear that a short-term continuing resolution (CR) will be needed next month,” said an Office of Management and Budget spokesperson in a statement. “As part of our responsibility to prudently plan for a short-term CR, OMB is providing Congress with technical assistance needed to avoid severe disruptions to government services in the first quarter of the fiscal year. We urge Congress to include these anomalies along with the critical emergency supplemental needs the Administration transmitted earlier this month in any forthcoming CR, as they have done on a bipartisan basis many times in the past.”

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