https://www.siliconvalley.com/2020/12/18/shutdown-deadline-looms-as-congress-fights-over-relief/ > By Manu Raju and Clare Foran | CNN > Congressional leaders had set a Friday deadline to approve a $900 billion pandemic relief deal and tie that proposal to a $1.4 trillion funding package before the federal government run outs of money at midnight. But now they are set to blow right past that deadline.