Budget Battle Ends Soon With Tea Party Loss: King, Corker

Congress will open the partially shuttered government and increase its borrowing limit on at least a short-term basis next week before the debt ceiling is reached Oct. 17, Senator Bob Corker said.

“Things are beginning to break,” Corker, a Tennessee Republican, said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” airing this weekend. “I’d be surprised if it goes all the way to the 17th,” he said. “Sometime midweek this will all be resolved, if not sooner.”