Partisan Sniping Muddles Timeline for Finishing Bill to Avoid Shutdown

Government Executive: Con­gres­sion­al lead­ers opened the work week snip­ing at each oth­er over slow-go­ing ne­go­ti­ations on a sweep­ing gov­ern­ment fund­ing bill, scut­tling early op­tim­ism ne­go­ti­at­ors could wrap the bill by Monday and pass it in the House by Fri­day.

Ma­jor­ity Lead­er Kev­in Mc­Carthy said the House could work in­to the week­end to fin­ish the om­ni­bus bill, and blamed the hold-up on Demo­crat­ic lead­ers, who he said have not em­powered their ne­go­ti­at­ors to cut a deal. He re­it­er­ated, as he said last week, that a short-term con­tinu­ing res­ol­u­tion could be ne­ces­sary to avoid a gov­ern­ment shut­down and give the Sen­ate time to pass a pack­age next week.

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