Lexology February 9, 2018
Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC

After a brief federal government shutdown overnight, Congress passed and the President signed into law the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 on February 9, 2018. The Senate voted 71-28 and the House voted 240-186 to approve the legislation. This major legislation provides for a two-year budget agreement that increases the budget caps, resulting in approximately $300 billion in additional federal spending. The legislation increases both defense and domestic spending, suspends the federal debt ceiling until March 2019, and funds hurricane and wildfire disaster relief, among other programs. The measure extends stopgap funding through March 23, 2018 to keep the federal government fully operating and to give Congress time to enact a full-year omnibus appropriations measure for Fiscal Year 2018 (FY18).

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