Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK), the House Appropriations Committee chairman, conceded Wednesday that Congress will likely need to craft a new short-term spending deal as time dwindles on the seven-week patch passed by the House in September.

Cole told the Washington Examiner in an interview at his U.S. Capitol office that the government shutdown is eating into the continuing resolution passed by the House on Sept. 19, making it likely a new CR, extending to the end of the calendar year or into January, will need to be crafted.

Cole said he thinks the Appropriations Committee could finish up its work by the end of December, but “every day that goes by, makes that less likely.”

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