Alabama’s top lawmakers: Democrats’ $1.5 trillion ‘wishlist’ is holding critical funding for state hostage

In a Friday afternoon letter to U.S. Senate leadership, Alabama’s top Republican lawmakers urged the upper chamber to pass a “short-term funding extension” to avert a government shutdown.

The deadline for Congress to pass federal funding and avoid a shutdown is Wednesday at midnight.

“As members of the Alabama Legislature, we urgently call on the U.S. Senate to immediately pass a short-term funding extension to prevent a government shutdown that would severely harm hardworking Alabamians,” Alabama Speaker of the House Nathaniel Ledbetter (R-Rainsville) and Senate Pro Tem Garlan Gudger (R-Cullman) wrote Senate leadership.

“A shutdown is neither sustainable nor a responsible way to govern and the American people understand that. That is why we are calling on Senate Democrats to fulfill th