Pelosi vows to avert government shutdown
By Mike Lillis - 09/23/21 12:15 PM EDT
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) vowed Thursday that Congress will find a way to avert a government shutdown next week, dismissing threats from Senate Republicans who intend to block the legislation.
"Whatever it is, we will have a CR that passes both houses by Sept. 30," Pelosi said during a press briefing in the Capitol, referring to the short-term spending bill known as a continuing resolution.
The House on Tuesday passed a legislative package to extend government funding through Dec. 3 and provide emergency funds for resettling Afghan refugees and responding to a series of natural disasters around the U.S. On its own, that package has broad bipartisan support.
But Democratic leaders also attached language to suspend the debt limit in the face of warnings that the Treasury Department will exhaust its borrowing authority sometime next month. A government default, economists of all stripes have warned, would tank the U.S. economy and send reverberations around the globe.
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