House Republicans working on averting another shutdown

WASHINGTON (AP) " House Republican leaders are grappling for a strategy to avert another government shutdown at midnight Thursday.They scheduled a closed-door session Monday evening to brief House GOP lawmakers on a way to pass a stopgap funding bill that could last through March 23 to buy time for progress in implementing any follow-up budget pact and, perhaps, pass immigration legislation.One option, GOP aides said, would be to pass the stopgap spending bill by marrying it [...]


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