Sen. Pat­ty Mur­ray con­firms Ukraine and dis­as­ter aid spend­ing bill in the works

Sen­ate Appro­pri­a­tions Com­mit­tee Chair­woman Pat­ty Mur­ray (D‑WA) con­firmed on Tues­day that she is work­ing on a con­tin­u­ing res­o­lu­tion to pro­vide addi­tion­al funds for dis­as­ter relief, assis­tance for Ukraine, and fire­fight­er pay.
The sup­ple­men­tal spend­ing bill has broad sup­port across both par­ties in the Sen­ate, though whether Speak­er Kevin McCarthy (R‑CA) would bring it up for a vote is unclear. If he does so, it may imper­il his speak­er­ship. Speak­ing to reporters at a press brief­ing on Tues­day, Mur­ray acknowl­edged that the Sen­ate was plow­ing ahead any­way.
WITH NO CLEAR PATH TO AVOID A SHUTDOWN, HOUSE REPUBLICANS’ INTERNAL TENSIONS SPEW INTO THE PUBLIC
Call­ing House Repub­li­cans’ most recent spend­ing pro­pos­al “unse­ri­ous,” Mur­ray point­ed out how “in con­trast, I’m work­ing hard here in the Sen­ate to make sure we do put togeth­er a bipar­ti­san CR that will deliv­er on the nec­es­sary fund­ing for dis­as­ter relief, sup­port­ing Ukraine, pay­ing our wild­land fire­fight­ers, and more.”
Mur­ray also com­mend­ed Repub­li­cans on the Appro­pri­a­tions Com­mit­tee for putting “togeth­er these 12 bills under very dif­fi­cult, chal­leng­ing cir­cum­stances.”
The fed­er­al gov­ern­ment runs out of fund­ing on Sept. 30, mean­ing the House and Sen­ate each have less than 10 in-ses­sion days t …