Budget Process Gets Ugly Early, Yet Republicans Are Confident a Shutdown Won’t Come in the Middle of Election Season

‘We’ve got an election coming up, and I don’t think there’s anybody on our side of the aisle that is interested in flirting with a government shutdown,’ one GOP congressman says.

AP/J. Scott Applewhite, file
The Capitol. AP/J. Scott Applewhite, file

House Republicans are moving with unusual speed to get their annual funding bills over to the Senate — a goal that they failed to meet last year, contributing to a nearly month-long vacant speakership.

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