The White House “accused Republicans of threatening a government shutdown by attaching dozens of controversial riders to a must-pass spending bill,” The Hill reports.
Said White House press secretary Josh Earnest: “Congressional Republicans are whistling past the graveyard of a government shutdown.”


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