North Dakota’s Armstrong reluctant to consider federal government shutdown
Steve Hallstrom
Special to The Farmer
North Dakota Congressman Kelly Armstrong says House Republicans are hoping to avoid a government shutdown in the coming weeks, but there is no assurance that the necessary compromises will be reached.
The first four spending bills relate to Agriculture, Military Construction and the Veterans Administration, Energy and Water, and Transportation and Housing and Urban Development (HUD) expire on March 1. The other eight funding measures expire March 8.
It’s been widely speculated that another short-term stopgap option, called a Continuing Resolution, or CR, will be passed in order to maintain the budgets of those agencies at current spending levels until mid-March. It would be the fourth such measure passed since September 30, when the last fiscal year ended.
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