While the midnight deadline on Friday October 1 is quickly approaching there seem to be some signs of movement to prevent a government shutdown, but like everything in DC, it will be ugly.

For show on Monday the Senate will try to invoke cloture and consider the House passed CR/Debt limit bill which is opposed by Republicans.  The cloture vote will not get anywhere near the required 60 votes.  Republicans have said they will vote for a clean CR in order to avert the shutdown.  It appears that with only days to act before the October 1 deadline, the House will pass a clean Continuing Resolution (CR) without the debt ceiling provision and send it to the Senate.  The Senate should then have the bipartisan majority needed to pass the CR and avoid a shutdown.  The CR will defer the next government funding deadline until early December.

House Democrats have another deadline next week as Pelosi made an agreement with House moderate Democrats that if they voted for the Democrats Budget Resolution there would be a vote on the Senate passed bipartisan infrastructure bill on September 27, Monday. 

However, progressive Democrats have threatened to vote against the bipartisan infrastructure measure until the $3.5T Reconciliation Bill is passed that incl...

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