| | | | | View in your browser | | |  | | | | | | House GOP leaders ditch government funding plan amid infighting | House Republican leaders have ditched their initial plan for a stopgap spending bill amid GOP infighting over how best to avoid a government shutdown, which will take place Friday at midnight if Congress doesn’t intervene.
The original plan was to send a bill to the Senate that links a full year of funding for defense with a short-term patch that funds the rest of the government through Jan. 19. The continuing resolution (CR) was also supposed to include funding for a children’s health insurance program and a massive $81 billion disaster aid package.
But some conservatives balked over the emergency aid because it is not offset, while the boost for the military was likely dead on arrival in the Senate. | | Read the full story here | | | |  | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Did a friend forward you this email? | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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