Senate Hustles to Break GOP Blockade Before Shutdown

“Senate leaders are racing to land a deal that would thwart a government shutdown by appeasing a Republican blockade,” Politico reports.

“Several Republican senators continue to resist swift passage of a stopgap spending bill that would give Congress three more weeks to negotiate a broad bipartisan spending package. The GOP holdouts are demanding that the chamber first vote on barring federal cash from being used to enforce vaccine mandates.”