While a government agency shutdown due to lack of agreement between Congress and the Trump administration over funding for the US Food and Drug Administration and other federal agencies seems less likely this year than last, the FDA will still have carry out its 2020 mission in the short term on 2019 continuing resolution funding – probably through December – legislative experts say.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will likely have to operate on continuing resolution dollars from now until about the middle of December, government appropriations experts and analysts say.
"I think the 2020 budget situation is likely to go into next year,” predicted Jessica Schulken, a former Senate Appropriations Committee staffer, now a consultant with the Russell Group