As Congress stares at a Friday deadline to fund the government, the reality that members will have scant time to actually read or process the $1.3 trillion fiscal 2018 omnibus before voting on it is starting to sink in.

The Wednesday night filing of the more than 2,200-page measure was the starting pistol that sent lawmakers into a mad dash against the government funding clock. They were given 52 hours.

The scramble could have been avoided had leaders opted to move another short-term continuing resolution to extend current funding for a few days or weeks.

But facing the bad optics of what would have been the sixth stopgap in just as many months and the prospect of dreaded weekend or recess work (the House and Senate are scheduled to be out of session the next two weeks), congressional leaders were resigned to moving ahead quickly with the late negotiated omnibus.

“I think that so often they do this because they prefer to hide these details from their own members,” Rep. Lloyd Doggett said. “And it’s outrageous.”