Congress scrambling for stopgap in end-of-year sprint

Congress is scrambling to roll out a government funding bill to avert a shutdown by Friday’s deadline, as lawmakers sprint to wrap up business for the year — and 118th Congress.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) was expected to unveil the text of a stopgap on Sunday, but that plan did not come to fruition as negotiators work through last-minute funding hangups. At the top of that list appears to be dollars for farmers, and key lawmakers in both parties are now debating who deserves blame for the delay.