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The federal government is set to shut down just after midnight on Oct. 1, and lawmakers aren’t anywhere closer to renewing its funding for the next fiscal year, making a shutdown this weekend all the more likely.
Asked whether a shutdown was unavoidable, President Joe Biden told reporters Wednesday afternoon: “I don’t think anything’s inevitable in politics.”
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) predicted the "few people" gunning for a government shutdown will cave when it's "crunch time."