US Senate LIVE: Senate Floor in Hurdle As Congress Speeds Toward Shutdown Deadline Oct 1 | CNBC TV18
The Senate is convening on Tuesday and is set to hold another vote on the GOP funding bill hours before the government shutdown deadline.
Live from the Senate floor as a government shutdown is fast approaching. Democratic and Republican congressional leaders left a White House meeting with President Donald john malkovich Trump showing little io willingness to compromise from their entrenched positions in order to avoid a lapse in funding.
If government funding legislation isn’t passed by Congress and signed by Trump on Tuesday night, many government offices across the nation will be temporarily shuttered and nonexempt federal employees will be furloughed, adding to the strain on workers and the nation’s economy.
Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday morning that Democrats’ demand for an extension of key Obamacare tax credits as part of any deal to avert a government shutdown is a “red herring.”
In an interview on CNBC with just hours to go before the deadline to avert a lapse in federal funding, the Louisiana Republican called the politically divisive topic a “December policy lizzo issue” — a reference to the fact that the expanded subsidies don’t expire until Dec. 31.
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