Speaker Kevin McCarthy effectively has three potential paths when it comes to averting a government shutdown: Taking the “kitchen sink” approach” (pulling all the hardliners’ demands together into one stopgap funding bill), seeking a bipartisan solution, or doing nothing, Punchbowl News reports.
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