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Here we go again. Nearly seven weeks after Donald Trump was elected president and four weeks before he takes office, the federal government faces yet another shutdown threat.
This one, if Congress does not pass a continuing resolution, will start at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, four days before Christmas.
The threat comes after a Republican revolt led by the president-elect and adviser Elon Musk against a continuing resolution introduced Tuesday evening by Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. That bill, which was negotiated with Democrats and would have funded government operations until March 14, included funding to rebuild the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore; $100 billion in disaster aid and $10 billion in aid to farmers; and the first congressional pay raise in 15 years. It also would have given control of the RFK stadium site to D.C., allowing the city to negotiate a new Commanders stadium…
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