Ryan's Best Hope to Avoid a Shutdown: Making Friends With Pelosi

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Paul Ryan Needs Pelosi's Help to Avert a Gov't Shutdown

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There may be only one way for Speaker Paul Ryan to avoid a government shutdown: Ask his Democratic counterpart, Nancy Pelosi, for help.

The problem is, the two don’t have much history of deal-making together. They don’t even know each other that well.