With Donald Trump’s win in the presidential election, Congress appears poised to pass a short-term continuing resolution to fund the government through February or into March, to afford the new president’s team the opportunity to help legislate government spending.
A mix of continuing resolutions and full appropriations to fund the federal government through fiscal year 2017 seemed to be on tap before the election, when Democrat Hillary Clinton was the odds-on favorite to win, and Republicans were threatened with losing control of the Senate.
