Month: March 2025

Originally published at Pennsylvania Policy Center on March 12, 2025. Earlier this week, the US House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution (CR) to fund the federal government through the end of the fiscal year, September 30, 2025. The CR now goes to the Senate where it will be voted on as early as Thursday, March 13. The Pennsylvania Policy Center strongly urges Pennsylvania senators John Fetterman and Dave McCormick to vote against the resolution. We do this with full recognition that such a vote may lead to a temporary shutdown of the federal government, something we would oppose in normal circumstances. But in three important respects, the circumstances surrounding this continuing resolution are not normal. First, as has generally been the case in the past and is true today, passage of the continuing resolution is subject to the filibuster and, as a result, needs bipartisan support. Typically, in these… Continue reading