{"id":46982,"date":"2021-09-30T19:46:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T19:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2021\/09\/30\/shutdown-averted-congress-approves-stopgap-budget-plan\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T13:02:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T13:02:31","slug":"shutdown-averted-congress-approves-stopgap-budget-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2021\/09\/30\/shutdown-averted-congress-approves-stopgap-budget-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Shutdown averted; Congress approves stopgap budget plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lawmakers avoided triggering a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2021\/09\/27\/dod-va-officials-prep-for-a-possible-government-shutdown-later-this-week\/\" target=\"_blank\">government shutdown<\/a> on Friday with an emergency budget extension approved just a few hours before federal funding would have lapsed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The move prevents worker furloughs and program shutdowns at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2021\/09\/23\/plans-for-bigger-defense-budget-get-boost-after-house-authorization-bill-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\">Departments of Defense<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/veterans\/2021\/07\/30\/270-billion-va-budget-plan-moves-ahead-with-an-eye-towards-completion-in-early-fall\/\" target=\"_blank\">Veterans Affair<\/a>s and other government agencies set to begin on Oct. 1, the start of fiscal 2022. Service members would have been required to keep working in the event of a shutdown, but their paychecks could have been delayed without the funding fix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Federal officials had spent the last few days preparing workers for the possibility of a shutdown, issuing notices about which offices would close and which ones would stay open under emergency authorization.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2021\/09\/28\/dod-va-officials-prep-for-a-possible-government-shutdown-later-this-week\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18018052123864.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">DoD, VA officials prep for a possible government shutdown later this week<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Thousands of civilian Defense Department and VA civilian workers could be furloughed on Friday if lawmakers can&#039;t reach a deal on a budget extension.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The budget extension runs through Dec. 3, giving Congress nine more weeks to pass a full budget plan for the military, VA and other departments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It continues spending at fiscal 2021 funding levels for that stretch, meaning that some new programs and initiatives will not be able to start until after a full budget deal is reached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defense officials have complained about those kinds of delays in recent years, as continuing budget resolutions to start the new fiscal year have become the norm. For example, the military has planned $120.6 million in new housing construction projects worldwide. But because those specific plans weren\u2019t included in the fiscal 2021 budget, officials can\u2019t start most of that work until the fiscal 2022 budget is finalized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plans for a defense budget of about $740 billion for fiscal 2022 have advanced in both chambers, but still will take weeks of negotiation to finalize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Similarly, lawmakers have already offered support for a $270 billion VA budget bill for next fiscal year but will need to finalize details before the plans can become law.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2021\/09\/24\/plans-for-bigger-defense-budget-get-boost-after-house-authorization-bill-vote\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP20182099560895.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Plans for bigger defense budget get boost after House authorization bill vote<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The $740 billion defense authorization bill draft now awaits compromise work with the Senate, with a goal of final passage later this year.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Thursday, before his chamber\u2019s approval of the budget extension, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., praised the move as a \u201cgood outcome\u201d for the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWith so many things happening here in Washington, the last thing the American people need is for the government to grind to a halt,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The budget extension includes $6.3 billion in supplemental money to support Afghan evacuees, including covering the costs of housing and security screenings for evacuees at American facilities in the United States and in foreign countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It also contains another $565 million for repairs to Navy facilities which were damaged by natural disasters in 2020 and 2021, and $330 million more Air Force locations with similar repair needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The budget extension came just a few hours before federal agencies would have been forced to shutter due to a lack of funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":51894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":8,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[8,160,36],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3424],"class_list":["post-46982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-congress","category-daily-news-roundup","category-newsletters"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"JACQCAB655CBXOBGYTMOBFG3CA","arc_canonical_url":"\/breaking-news\/2021\/09\/30\/shutdown-averted-congress-approves-stopgap-budget-plan\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Shutdown averted; 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