Republicans’ “clean” continuing resolution to keep the government open included some high-profile additions, like tens of millions in security funding in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, as well as a fix for the hole Congress blew through the District of Columbia’s budget.
But another funding fix was slipped into the temporary government funding bill that even some lawmakers had missed as of Friday: money to address water-sanitation issues in Jackson, Mississippi.
“There’s authority in there for them to move some of the money that has been designated to certain areas,” Rep. Michael Guest, a Republican who represents a portion of Jackson, told NOTUS. “Some money that would have been designated, if I’m not mistaken, for capital improvements, can be moved and now used on the operating side. So that language was included.”