Via porkbuster extraordinaire Mark Tapscott comes news that a major victory has been achieved on the emergency supplemental:

National Journal's Peter Cohn is reporting an agreement among Senate and House negotiators to cap spending in the emergency spending bill for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and Gulf Coast hurricane recovery to $94.5 billion.

The total would include, according to Cohn, the $92.5 billion originally requested by President Bush and approved by the House of Representatives, plus an additional $2.3 billion to fund avian flu preparations. The National Journal is a subscription-only publication, so I can't provide a link to the full article.

I had hoped to see some more official confirmation on Friday, preferably with additional details, hence the delay in posting this news. But hopefully we'll get additional details today. I can say that I did get confirmation from a Senate source who agreed that the deal had in fact happened, but didn't have any more specifics either...