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Democrats will help House Speaker Kevin McCarthy avoid a government shutdown in exchange for $3.3 billion to accelerate the migrant inflow.

With a government shutdown looming, the Biden White House is focusing its efforts on tying Republicans to the negative economic fallout rather than breaking the legislative stalemate in the first place.

Two Republicans say they'd be willing to work with Democrats to fund the government if their party can't come up with a solution before a shutdown next weekend.

House Republicans emerged from negotiations on Thursday cautious yet hopeful they are close to an agreement on spending legislation just over a week before government funding is set to lapse, leading to a shutdown.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said he will strip money meant for training Ukrainian soldiers from the defense appropriations bill, which hard-line conservative members in his conference opposed, and hold a separate vote on it.

Rep. Blake Moore is part of the House Budget Committee which passed outline Wednesday to balance budget

Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is on his third strategy to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the month after suffering a series of defeats handed to him by conservatives in his own conference. He was forced to punt a procedural vote on a GOP-only stopgap plan, and found sustained opposition even after proposing…

Plus, state revenues drop, Democrats win trip to the White House and more.

If dissenters continue to stymie his efforts to avoid a government shutdown, the speaker should stop accommodating them and reach out to Democrats to as he did when he secured an agreement with the White House on suspending the debt ceiling.

House Republicans remain unable to agree on a continuing resolution to keep the government funded in October. Meanwhile, senators left town Thursday still unable to get agreement on bringing up a three-bill spending package that includes its version of the USDA-FDA bill.