The deadline for a spending extension or actual budget bill is midnight tonight and while the Senate seems to have got an agreement, the House hasn't.
Now its quite likely that it will accept the Senate deal, almost certainly if it goes to a floor vote where the fiscal conservatives can vote against it but it will still pass with the votes of the democrats.
It effectively ends sequestration in the manner sequestration intended, by passing a budget.
Sequestration was intended to be so harsh that it would force the congress to make a deal.
It failed for quite a while.
The spending increases in this deal may seem like a lot, but remember they have been postponed for a number of years now.
Of course we still need to address serious issues like immigration and dreamers, the deficit, the environment, entitlement programs, but it is at least a start.
With the mid-term elections now on everyone's mind and of course primary challenges to worry about we are probably in a period where little will actually happen.
But lets put down the spending revolver for now at least and try to get to work.
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