“The Senate will hold a futile vote Monday night — just 72 hours before a potential shutdown — on a House-passed bill to fund the government through Dec. 3 and raise the debt limit,” Axios reports.
“The bill is going to fail. Period. But then comes Plan B: A ‘clean’ continuing resolution — stripped of language about raising the debt limit — that Democrats spent the past week preparing.”
And a reminder: This is not normal.


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