House Republicans Working on Averting Another Shutdown
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(Worthy News) – House Republican leaders are grappling for a strategy to avert another government shutdown at midnight Thursday.
They scheduled a closed-door session Monday evening to brief House GOP lawmakers on a way to pass a stopgap funding bill that could last through March 23 to buy time for progress in implementing any follow-up budget pact and, perhaps, pass immigration legislation.
One option, GOP aides said, would be to pass the stopgap spending bill by marrying it with a full-year, $659 billion Pentagon spending bill. The aides required anonymity because lawmakers hadn’t been briefed. [ Source: CBN News (Read More…) ]
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