House and Senate leaders will meet in the Capitol Wednesday with Trump administration officials to try to reinvigorate talks on a stalled fiscal 2020 spending deal.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and President Trump’s acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, will huddle with top Senate and House leaders, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby, R-Ala., and other leading appropriators are also expected to attend.
The group will try to reach an accord on lifting the budget caps imposed by the 2011 Budget Control Act. Without a deal to raise the caps, domestic and military spending face a $125 billion cut.
Shelby, in an interview, appeared hopeful the two sides can reach a deal after weeks of delay.
“We’ll talk tomorrow,” Shelby said as he headed into a Senate vote Tuesday.
Mulvaney and Mnuchin had been seeking a separate vote from Congress to raise the nation’s debt limit, but leaders in both parties say it must be included in a caps deal.
Both Republicans and Democrats largely agree on raising caps for both military and domestic budgets, while Mulvaney, a former House member who sought reduced federal spending, has resisted increasing the caps.
