KQED Nightly Business Report December 8, 2017
Shutdown to the friday before christmas just two weeks away. It also buys time for talks on a number of thorny issues. John harwood is following the story for us tonight from washington. And john, its not over yet, but at least theres a step towards resolution. Reporter yes. Theyre not going to have a shutdown this week. There are still issues theyve got to resolve by december the 22nd. Most importantly on the republican side, they want a big increase in defense spending, which requires democratic votes to get passed the caps that existed from the obama administration. In return, democrats are...