Congress stumbles into gov't shutdown, budget deal stalled
WASHINGTON (AP) " The U.S. government stumbled into a shutdown at midnight as a rogue Senate Republican blocked a speedy vote on a massive, bipartisan, budget-busting spending deal, protesting the return of trillion-dollar deficits on the watch of Republicans controlling Washington.The shutdown " technically a lapse in agency appropriations " was the second government closure in less than a month, another product of election-year partisan disputes and persistent internal divisions in [...]
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