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Senate leaders reach deal on short-term spending bill in push to avert shutdown

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And the dipshits in the House will completely ignore this
- Yes, but when the House can't get their act together and service folk in the military have to work without pay (and all the others deemed essential), then senate can remind those essential people it was their representatives in the House that axed the workers paychecks (but not their own paychecks). Perhaps the freedom caucus will be free of their $174K+ a year jobs.
  
  You would think. Turns out burning the government to the ground and forcing service members to work without pay is a winning stance in GA and FL these days
  
  Right. Because that worked before.
It is also likely that House Republicans will strip out the minimal money for Ukraine that the Senate has included in its stopgap, senior GOP sources said, given that many hardliners are opposed to it and they can’t afford many defections.
Traitors to democracy in the pocket of Russia.
Conservative house extremists WANT a shutdown. They are anti-government more than they even care about any issues they bring up in particular. Since the result of a shutdown is exactly what they want, they have no incentive at all to avoid it.
- If they had any quality of character these grifters would be refusing to take the pay and benefits package but is that what we see?
  Noooooooooooooope.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
With just days to go before the government runs out of money, the Senate has unveiled a bipartisan stopgap bill in a bid to avert a shutdown – but there’s no guarantee that it will be able to pass in the House as a bloc of conservatives rail against the prospect of a short-term funding extension.
Schumer said earlier Tuesday, “We will continue to fund the government at present levels while maintaining our commitment to Ukraine’s security and humanitarian needs, while also ensuring those impacted by natural disasters across the country begin to get the resources they need.”
But House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told reporters that funding for Ukraine should not be included in a short-term spending package, and instead should be a standalone bill.
McCarthy has remained noncommittal on whether he would put a bipartisan Senate-passed stopgap measure to avert a shutdown on the floor this week ahead of the deadline.
McCarthy indicated that if the House is able to pass the series of spending bills it has lined up for consideration this week, then he would put a stopgap measure on the floor that includes border provisions.
Government operations and services that continue during a shutdown are activities deemed necessary to protect public safety and national security or considered critical for other reasons.
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