CQ’s Paul M. Krawzak spells out the progress lawmakers are making on reaching a two-year budget deal that would most likely lift the 2011 budget caps.

Show Notes:  

• Senate Adopts Budget With House-Backed Changes

.@TomColeOK04 on fiscal 2018 spending level: They think they are close and I think they are. I think we’ll probably hear about it when we get back.

Also, Cole is wearing a full tux to today’s vote.

— Jennifer Shutt (@JenniferShutt) November 16, 2017

Statements on the administration’s $44B aid request from the House and Senate Appropriations Chairmen and the House’s top appropriations Democrat. pic.twitter.com/07qjBQa6Wd

— Jennifer Shutt (@JenniferShutt) November 17, 2017