Forbes: Here we go again: There are less than 2 weeks left before the current continuing resolution expires at midnight December 11. If Congress and the White House don’t agree on some kind of extension by then, the federal government will shut down.
The one big difference between what’s about to happen and what occurred at the end of September is that Paul Ryan (R-WI) has replaced John Boehner (R-OH) as speaker of the House. That presumably rules out the tactic Boehner used to get the CR adopted by resigning and taking away the House Freedom Caucus’ ability to threaten his continuing as speaker. But these days you can’t (and absolutely shouldn’t) rule out anything that’s highly unexpected when it comes to what Congress will do so…
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