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line-height: 1.1em;"> Congress </h2> </a> <h1>Hurricane Harvey lowers odds of government shutdown, for now</h1> </header> </div> </div> <div class="wrapper clearfix col-lg-12 pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-article-mco-slimline-byline col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12" id="fFxVOm1RIuzbJq"> <div class="row"> <div class="byline slimline col-sm-12 col-xs-12"> <div class="author-name-wrap addthis"> <span class="byline author-by">By: </span> <span class="author-name"> <span class="author-name" itemprop="author"><a class="author-name" href="/author/joe-gould" rel="author">Joe Gould</a></span> </span> &emsp; <span class="publish addthis"> <i class="fa fa-calendar" aria-hidden="true"></i> August 31, 2017 </span> <span class="addthis"><div class="addthis_inline_share_toolbox"></div></span> <div> <header> <figure> <img src="https://www.armytimes.com/resizer/mXUonNWmpjC-2j0A3VINH9jkwdQ=/1200x0/filters:quality(100)/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-mco.s3.amazonaws.com/public/VENOMJAAFJASPFY6DVOWOLFMIE.jpg" alt="" class="image-lazy"/> <noscript><img src="https://www.armytimes.com/resizer/mXUonNWmpjC-2j0A3VINH9jkwdQ=/1200x0/filters:quality(100)/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-mco.s3.amazonaws.com/public/VENOMJAAFJASPFY6DVOWOLFMIE.jpg" alt=""/></noscript> <figcaption class="publish"> <h4 class="caption credit ">U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the Texas Department of Public Safety Emergency Operations Center in Austin, Texas, on Aug. 29, 2017, as rains from Hurricane Harvey continue to flood parts of Texas. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)</h4> </figcaption> </figure> </header> </div> <div class="thinline"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="wrapper clearfix col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12 pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-article-mco-body" id="f0GkG0MRIuzbJq"> <div id="article-body" class="article-body article-body-elements"> <article itemprop="articleBody"> <div id="article-content"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> WASHINGTON — Hurricane Harvey may help Congress delay a possible government shutdown and put off a fight over the federal budget.</p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> Congress is expected to tie must-pass emergency aid for victims of the hurricane to three-month stop-gap government funding and an increase for the borrowing limit, which expires Oct. 1. That in turn would let Congress punt any big battles over the 2018 budget to make room to discuss tax reform.</p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> Rep. Mark Meadows, the chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, told ABC News on Tuesday he and many of his group’s members want to avert a government shutdown this fall. He suggested conservatives would vote for a continuing resolution next week, with as much as $20 billion for hurricane funding attached.</p> </div> </div> <div class="pb-ad-container"> <div id="300x250-1-in-story" class="pb-ad-container 300x250-1-in-story pb-ad pb-ad-prod ad-300X250" data-slot-name="300x250-1-in-story" data-mobile-display="true" data-desktop-display="true"></div> </div> <div class="border-bottom-airy"></div> <script>window.dfpAdHelper.appendAd("300x250-1-in-story","/114235265/DefenseNews/congress/rectangle",[300,250],"in-story","","","rectangle");</script> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> “If there’s going to be a shutdown fight, I would see that that would happen in December or January … but not in September and certainly not along with the disaster we’re facing in Texas,” said Meadows, R-N.C.</p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> Meadows also said his members want to avert a shutdown in September even if no money is included for a proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall, a signature issue of President Donald Trump’s campaign.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> Last week, at a campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona, Trump suggested he would let a shutdown happen if Congress does not include appropriations for the wall. The House has passed a package of appropriations that included $1.6 billion for a wall, as well as defense spending.</p> </div> </div> <div class="pb-ad-container"> <div id="300x250-2-in-story" class="pb-ad-container 300x250-2-in-story pb-ad pb-ad-prod ad-300X250" data-slot-name="300x250-2-in-story" data-mobile-display="true" data-desktop-display="true"></div> </div> <div class="border-bottom-airy"></div> <script>window.dfpAdHelper.appendAd("300x250-2-in-story","/114235265/DefenseNews/congress/rectangle",[300,250],"in-story","","","rectangle");</script> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> Trump has since asked Congress to quickly pass Harvey aid, which suggests to some analysts he would go along with any measure that has Harvey funding attached.</p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> “No politician would want to touch [a shutdown now], not in the House or the Senate, let alone the president,” said Gordon Adams, who oversaw defense budgeting for the Clinton administration. “In an odd kind of way, Harvey becomes the horse that draws the debt ceiling and CR carts.”</p> </div> </div> <style>.newsletter-subscribe-button{background-color:#004074}.newsletter-subscribe-more{color:#004074}</style> <script src='https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js'></script> <script>window.onload=function(){var recaptcha=document.forms["emailsignup"]["g-recaptcha-response"];recaptcha.required=true;recaptcha.oninvalid=function(e){alert("Please complete the captcha")}};</script> <div class="container signup newsletter"> <div class="newsletter-subscribe"> <div class="newsletter-subscribe-signup subtitle col-xs-12 col-sm-8"> <span class="title">Sign up for our Daily News Roundup</span> <br>The top Defense News stories of the day</div> <div class="newsletter-subscribe-signup col-xs-12 col-sm-4"> <button class="newsletter-subscribe-button subscribe">Subscribe</button> </div> <form id="newsletterForm" name="emailsignup" target="subscribeFrame" method="POST" action="https://link.defensenews.com/s/Editorial+-+Early+Bird+Brief"> <input type="hidden" name="vars[source]" value="Website - Module"> <div class="newsletter-subscribe-submit col-xs-12 col-sm-5 hide"> <input type="email" required title="Enter a valid email address" id="email" name="email" class="form-signup" placeholder="Enter your email address"> </div> <div class="newsletter-subscribe-submit form-captcha col-xs-12 col-sm-7 hide"> <div class="form-captcha col-xs-12 col-sm-6"> <div class="form-captcha-container"> <div class="g-recaptcha" data-sitekey="6Le5nwkUAAAAAIykVCuKd4Fn7Dlf_h7DTNpw6Ixj"></div> </div> </div> <div class="form-button col-xs-12 col-sm-6"> <button id="signup" class="newsletter-subscribe-button subscribe">Subscribe</button> <iframe name="subscribeFrame" class="hide"></iframe> </div> </div> </form> <div class="newsletter-confirmation col-xs-12 col-sm-6 hide">Thanks for signing up!</div> <div class="newsletter-confirmation newsletter-subscribe-more col-xs-12 col-sm-6 hide"> <a href="https://link.defensenews.com/join/5ba/sign-up" target="_blank">For more newsletters click here</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> Harvey is said to be one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history, and it’s not over yet. Since making landfall on the Gulf Coast of Texas on Friday, the ongoing storm has killed at least 38 people, left more than 30,000 people displaced, and has destroyed or damaged between 30,000 and 40,000 homes.</p> </div> </div> <div class="pb-ad-container"> <div id="300x250-3-in-story" class="pb-ad-container 300x250-3-in-story pb-ad pb-ad-prod ad-300X250" data-slot-name="300x250-3-in-story" data-mobile-display="true" data-desktop-display="true"></div> </div> <div class="border-bottom-airy"></div> <script>window.dfpAdHelper.appendAd("300x250-3-in-story","/114235265/DefenseNews/congress/rectangle",[300,250],"in-story","","","rectangle");</script> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> Passing a CR with Harvey funding and raising the debt limit still leaves until November and December&nbsp;fights&nbsp;over the wall, tax reform, and the balance between defense and nondefense funding.</p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> Another scenario is the debt ceiling is raised until November or December, raising the stakes for a grand bargain that includes some or all of the above.</p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> “Such packages are arguably not the best for government because so much is in them,” said former Department of Defense Comptroller Bob Hale. “But in a sharply divided country, where each side is looking for leverage, I think it is true that nothing major can get resolved until everything major is resolved.”</p> </div> </div> <div class="pb-ad-container"> <div id="300x250-4-in-story" class="pb-ad-container 300x250-4-in-story pb-ad pb-ad-prod ad-300X250" data-slot-name="300x250-4-in-story" data-mobile-display="true" data-desktop-display="true"></div> </div> <div class="border-bottom-airy"></div> <script>window.dfpAdHelper.appendAd("300x250-4-in-story","/114235265/DefenseNews/congress/rectangle",[300,250],"in-story","","","rectangle");</script> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> If somehow Trump is dissatisfied with the final deal, will he stand firm on his shutdown threat? It’s hard to say.</p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> “From President Trump’s perspective, it sounds like a very effective negotiating tactic, and it mirrors his previous negotiating tactics,” said Katherine Blakeley, a defense budget expert with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. “But in his eight months as president we have seen him draw red lines and then forget they ever existed.”</p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> A short-term CR is nothing new for defense contractors and the military, though it means the DoD treads water at 2017 funding levels with no new-start programs. Averting a shutdown would be a win for the Defense Department and Veterans Affairs, where there were unpaid furloughs for civilian workers during the&nbsp;last extended government shutdown, in October 2013.</p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Thursday declined to say whether he was confident there would be a CR, and said he planned to work with Congress.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> ”We’ve already got meetings scheduled to sit down with them and talk about the way forward,” he said.&nbsp;“This is up to Congress. That’s why I need to stay on top with them. Is it going to be a budget, is it going to be a CR, a short-term CR, all of those things, we need to work with Congress on.”&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> A fiscal 2018 omnibus spending package is presumed to take shape after September with low expectations for big-league defense buildup. Budget watchers are looking to the Senate Appropriations Committee, which has yet to pass a defense appropriations bill, to influence the final defense number.</p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <div class="element element-interstitial-link" style="margin: 30px 20px 30px 20px; padding: 10px;background-color:#ececec;"> <article class="story-item story-teaser story-teaser-normal"> <header class=" header-spacer" style="padding:15px;"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-3"> <figure> <div class="lazy-wrapper promo-img-container"> <a href="/congress/2017/08/30/how-will-a-continuing-resolution-hurt-the-military-mccain-and-reed-ask-mattis/" target="_blank"> <img data-original="https://arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-mco.s3.amazonaws.com/public/6CWZYPG7KFHZHH64KP6352YARA.jpg" class="image-lazy" alt="How will a continuing resolution hurt the military, McCain and Reed ask Mattis" src="https://arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-mco.s3.amazonaws.com/public/6CWZYPG7KFHZHH64KP6352YARA.jpg" style="display: block; width:auto;"> </a> </div> <style>#story_5346.lazy-wrapper{position:relative;height:0;overflow:hidden;padding-bottom:56.17977528089888%}#story_5346.lazy-wrapper img{position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%}</style> </figure> </div> <div class="col-sm-9 text-wrap-stack"> <h5 class=""> <a href="/congress/2017/08/30/how-will-a-continuing-resolution-hurt-the-military-mccain-and-reed-ask-mattis/" target="_blank"> How will a continuing resolution hurt the military, McCain and Reed ask Mattis</a> </h5> <p class="excerpt">Sens. John McCain and Jack Reed have asked Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to spell out what it means to the military if Congress cannot pass a budget on time this year.</p> <div class="byline"> <span class="by">By: </span> <span class="author-name by">Joe Gould</span> </div> </div> </div> </header> </article> </div> </div></div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> Congress is expected to take up an additional wartime spending measure to fund operations in Afghanistan, which would likely be exempt from budget caps. On Thursday, Mattis confirmed he has signed orders for new troops to deploy to Afghanistan, in line with the administration’s South Asia strategy, and said he plans to brief Congress on plans there on Sept. 6.</p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> Still, it remains unclear what scope there is for Democrats and more mainline conservatives, in opposition to GOP fiscal hawks, to raise budget caps to accommodate proposed regular 2018 spending.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> “People are talking about it as though it’s being punted until December, but the political divisions are the same ones as in 2013 and 2015 when we saw sequester for cap-relief bill,” Blakeley said. “If anything, they’re deeper.”<br></p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> Adams predicts that splits in the House GOP will force a bipartisan deal to get a final appropriations bill. 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