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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Eric Garcia and Andrew Feinberg

How the far-right arm of the Republican party is sending US hurtling towards a government shutdown

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The US government will run out of money this weekend, but the House of Representatives is nowhere close to finding a deal to keep the lights on.

If both the House and Senate can’t pass identical versions of all 12 annual government funding bills — or a resolution continuing to fund the government at Fiscal Year 2023 levels — the federal government will enter its sixth partial or full shutdown since 1994.

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