GOP still has 'no specific direction' on spending bill with shutdown looming
by Susan Ferrechio and Al Weaver | Dec 20, 2017, 7:26 PM
House Republicans Wednesday set a tentative plan to take up a short-term spending bill that would keep the government funded until Jan. 19, but planned to strip out a year-long defense funding measure that faced a Senate filibuster, and was likely to set up a separate vote on a new disaster relief package.
Republicans met in the Capitol basement shortly after returning from a celebratory meeting at the White House, where they cheered passage of a major tax overhaul.
They emerged from the meeting a little less cheerful, with no certain path forward on a bill to avoid a partial government shutdown after Friday. A clash of lawmaker coalitions with different priorities has left GOP leaders struggling to find a way to pass the measures in both the House and the Senate.
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