The nation is barreling towards a selfinflicted calamity, a shutdown coming in fewer than 35 hours, a short term Spending Solution put it down and another shortterm solution in the senate is not likely to get past before saturday at midnight. If that deadline passes without new funding, about 3. 5 million federal workers when i get paid including active duty military. Strachan Alphabet Soup of federal agencies would face closure or a cutback in reductions of services, the iris, sba, fda, osha, snap, headstart amongst many other. Lauren kahl you have breaking developments, a lastminute attempt by mccarthy with the Stopgap Measure was essentially doomed to fail . Yes, more than conservative 20 conservative hardliners voted against the measure, a show that they are not sticking by the speaker, they need to have some kind of republican plan to go to the Negotiating Table with United States senate, working on a bipartisan basis. Our colleagues caught up with Kevin Mccarthy just moments ago