There’s breaking news on the negotiations over a budget for the “current fiscal year” in Washington, D.C., on this Sunday afternoon.
Congressional leaders have clinched a deal on overall budget totals that could pave the way for a broader government funding compromise in the coming weeks — further enraging Speaker Mike Johnson’s right flank.
The bipartisan agreement sets defense funding at $886 billion for the current fiscal year, in line with the total President Joe Biden and former Speaker Kevin McCarthy negotiated as part of last summer’s debt ceiling package. In a big win for Democrats, the accord pegs non-defense funding at nearly $773 billion, a total that counts tens of billions of dollars agreed to alongside the debt limit package.
But all might not be positive for the Democrats and the White House in this “agreement on topline spending levels for the current fiscal…
