What Democrats Can Get to Prevent a Shutdown

‘Hope Is Not a Plan’: Lawmakers Are Starting to Rally Around a Short-Term Funding Plan to Avoid a Shutdown

Negotiators on Capitol Hill have three more weeks to come up with a plan to avoid a government shutdown. But they’re already starting to concede that a short-term continuing resolution may be needed to keep the lights on.Republican leadership, along with some appropriators and many Democrats, seem to be on the same page in wanting a CR which would fund the government at its current levels potentially through November, giving them more time to ha…

Dem, GOP Leaders Eye Short-Term Deal to Avert Shutdown

Republican and Democrat leaders have signaled they are willing to agree to a 45-day — or possibly longer — "clean" continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown, reported The Hill. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., "has come around to the viewpoint of telling Republicans that partisan CRs are dead on arrival," one Democrat senator told the news outlet. House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and House Speaker Mike Johns…

What Democrats Can Get to Prevent a Shutdown

Punchbowl News: “Democrats have plenty of issues heading into this fight. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer weren’t only on different pages during the last government funding fight, they were on different planets. Schumer got hammered for bailing Republicans out in March. He can’t do that this time while getting nothing in return.” “Republicans are beginning to come to grips with the fact that they ha…