The government won’t shut down this weekend, but President Joe Biden still has plenty of budget headaches.
Biden signed a continuing resolution late Thursday that kicks the government shutdown controversy to January. That still leaves him looking for ways other than the stopgap to secure more funding for Israel and the war in Ukraine.
Biden faces skepticism on Ukraine funding mostly from figures on the Right who question what they describe as a “blank check” policy toward the embattled nation since Russia invaded in February 2022. Skepticism on Israel funding has emerged mostly from the far Left, though a further complication is the various efforts to tie different parts of the funding together.