Robert Mueller's investigation is reportedly funded through September, at least

Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office is famously leak-proof, so who knows if the speculation about his investigation being close to done is true or not. But Mueller's office is facing no financial pressure to wrap up the investigation of Russian campaign meddling and ties to President Trump's 2016 campaign and administration, Reuters reports. In fact, Mueller's investigation is funded through the end of September, three U.S. officials said, and if he's going to request funding for fiscal 2020, he has until the end of June to put in his request.

Mueller's office has been typically silent about reports that it is close to handing its final report to Attorney General Robert Barr, and "representatives of key congressional committees involved in Trump-related investigations say they have received no guidance from Mueller's office regarding his investigation's progress or future plans," Reuters reports.

But the Justice Department did confirm Monday that there's no significance in the absence of Mueller's investigation in the budget Trump submitted to Congress on Monday. "The Special Counsel is funded by the Independent Counsel appropriation, a permanent indefinite appropriation established in the Department’s 1988 Appropriations Act," a Justice Department spokesman told Reuters.

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