Trump Backs Bill to Avert Shutdown

“Signs are increasingly pointing to a full-year government funding patch as Congress barrels toward the March 14 shutdown deadline without a deal on overall spending totals,” Politico reports.

“A complicating factor: Senior Republicans are looking at how to shoehorn cuts by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency into the government funding bill — a move that threatens to ratchet up tensions with Democrats and raise the chances of a shutdown.”

President Trump endorsed “a clean, temporary government funding Bill … to the end of September.”