WASHINGTON — The Senate was scrambling Wednesday to agree on passing a budget to keep the government from shutting down at midnight on Friday.
After keeping Uncle Sam in business with stopgap funding bills since Congress missed its regular deadline in September, lawmakers finally unveiled a $1.7 trillion, 4,100-page spending bill early Tuesday morning.
That set off a fierce struggle by senators who lost out on their priorities, and is threatening to derail the process with just two full days left.
