Set-Aside Alert news analysis:

Trump signs $1.1 trillion spending bill to fund agencies through FY17

     President Trump signed a $1.1 bill to fund the U.S. government through the end of fiscal 2017 on Sept. 30.

      Congress approved the bipartisan legislation and sent it to the president hours before expiration of the previous funding bill. As a result, a government shutdown was avoided.

      The omnibus bill, which runs for more than 1,600 pages, avoided the package of $18 billion in cuts to civilian programs proposed by Trump. (See 4/14/17 issue.)

      It does include a portion of the president’s other priorities..... ...more....