A major portion of the federal budget was funded by a compromise revealed by US congressional leaders on Sunday. Both chambers plan to enact this legislation before a deadline later this week.

The divided Congress has been kicking the can down the road as negotiators work out disagreements for more than five months now, and as a result, the 12 yearly spending bills that make up the federal budget have still not been enacted.

The Democratic-led Senate and Republican-led House last week agreed on another short-term "continuing resolution," extending until this Friday the deadline for the first six legislation and setting March 22 as the deadline for the other six.Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer praised Congress's achievement of a bipartisan agreement on the first six federal spending measures, which will maintain government operations, on Sunday afternoon. The package, valued at about $460 billion, was approved.

"The government's financing is about to expire on Friday, and time is running out. The House has to swiftly approve and forward this bipartisan measure to the Senate by the end of the week," he stated in a statement.

With a razor-thin majority in both the House and the Senate, a delay in either chamber may lead to a partial government shutdown beyond the March 8 deadline. On March 7, President Joe Biden is scheduled to give the yearly State of the Union speech to both houses of Congress.

House Speaker Mike Johnson praised the package for obtaining "key conservative policy victories" and forcing "sharp cuts" to certain federal expenditures. Johnson has had to balance the demands of both more moderate Republicans and his own right-wing side.

Democratic negotiators, meanwhile, claimed to have "blocked countless extreme Republican policies—like efforts to restrict abortion rights—that would have set our country back decades," according to Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Patty Murray.

Immediately after the measure was introduced, several conservatives opposed it. Republican Senator Mike Lee stated on X, the former Twitter, that "no Republican should vote for this bill."

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