A top White House official said Friday that she is “not optimistic” about avoiding a partial government shutdown starting after Jan. 19 after comments House Republicans made this week, including during a trip to the southern border.
But Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young didn’t rule out a full-year continuing resolution written in line with the debt limit agreement that Democrats in both chambers, the White House and and Senate Republicans support, which could be a potential off-ramp out of a funding lapse.
“I’m typically optimistic, but I don’t want to sound as optimistic this morning, especially after some of the remarks I’ve seen over the last couple of days … trying to conflate not only holding up Ukraine and Israel funding now for border, some in the House Republican conference now saying shutdown over border as well, which is not a great thing for the country,” Young said at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.
