Here’s What’s in the Government Funding Deal

The massive bill includes disaster relief funding, pharmacy benefit management reforms, and a congressional pay raise.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) (L) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) listen during remarks at a Capitol Menorah lighting ceremony at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington on Dec. 12, 2023. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Congress has only two days left to extend government funding beyond its Dec. 20 expiration date and sidestep a shutdown.

With Republicans slated to take control of Congress and the White House in January, lawmakers were expected to push major spending negotiations into the new year. That’s why the mammoth 1,547-page spending bill House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) unveiled on Dec. 17 took some by surprise.