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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is looking to prevent a partial government shutdown by moving a set of spending bills as a single package ahead of Friday’s deadline, according to a source familiar. Johnson held a private call with GOP lawmakers Friday night and told members his goal is to pass a package of the four bills…

House Republicans are focusing their gaze on securing partisan policy changes that Democrats are decrying as nonstarters as a fight over government funding heats up on Capitol Hill. Both chambers are ramping up talks on the 12 annual government funding bills after top negotiators struck a bipartisan deal on how to divvy up dollars for…

The relationships on the senate side. >> and mitch mcconnell will not bring things to the floor unless he knows that he has the votes, and mike pence told them all in a caucus meeting that the president was supporting this bill to reopen the government, and to pass the appropriations measures and to have is a short-term funding bill for the homeland and they voted for it two weeks ago, and two weeks ago, kasie, and he was communicating with the president, and then he reneged and that is seriousl...

A house republican who is just, you know, twisting herself into a pretzel trying to get away from the president. barbara comstock, republican from northern virginia, not too far from here, in a statement, our public servants have been getting shortchanged for years. we cannot balance the budget on the backs of our federal employees and i will work with my house and senate colleagues to keep the pay increase in our appropriations measures that we vote on in september. a slap at the president for ...

The senates is larger than the house but not as large as rubio wants. he wants it to be refundable. that means that it goes to people who -- a tax credit that goes to people who dont any tax. its a transfer payment, a welfare payment, if you will, of support for a poor family that doesnt pay any income taxes. and thats what all of these issues are tied up with. if you move the dial on one of them, it affects the amount of money that is available for doing other things. its a very complicated. yo...

Doing nothing but talking about comey and russia and this and that. a lot of its the media asking them about it in thing hallways, and that is distracting. elizabeth: we can talk about tax reform and health care, those things can feasibly be pushed, but the budget has to be passed or else then we talk about a shutdown. >> well, the budget is a spending blueprint. what they really need to pass without a shutdown is spending bills. those are 12 separate appropriations measures that are now churnin...

Appropriations bills have become just as hard as budgetary votes. my opinion they should be passing with simple majorities in the senate. i think they would eliminate a lot of these problems. in an odd way it might force us to once again to talk with each other and from time to time deal with each other. >> fundamentally, this is the responsibility of congress to get appropriations. its what they are. the budget tells you how much you can spend and the appropriations measures give you the money ...