Government Shutdown Looming

Congress Expands To-Do List With Ukraine, Border

Nine days before a potential government shutdown, Congress is no closer to resolving the standoff and is even complicating the issue with Republicans insisting on border security changes as a condition for further support for Ukraine in its fight against Russia. Dems have balked at such linkage, calling it dead on arrival in the Senate.

Congress is in this budget-shutdown loop because the House and Senate have failed, as they often do, to pass the dozen individual bills needed to fund the various agencies in the federal government. When the new budget year began Oct. 1, lawmakers agreed to approve funding at the current levels until Nov. 17, to allow time to finish up the work.

To complicate matters this time, Republicans are refusing Biden's request to support Ukraine in battling Russia unless the president agrees to their demands to bolster security along the U.S. border with Mexico.

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