Politics
Trump’s spending play raises ‘risk of a shutdown,’ top Democrats say
Top Democratic appropriators said on Friday that President Donald Trump’s decision to abandon bipartisan spending talks and endorse a long-term funding patch is “raising the risk of a shutdown.” Speaking two weeks before the March 14 funding deadline, Washington Sen. Patty Murray and Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro said in a joint statement that Republican leaders were “walking away” from negotiations aimed at cementing new government spending levels…
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