GOP Leaders Push House Holdouts on Government Funding Deadline
- Conservative threatened to block tax plan over stopgap measure
- Republicans moving toward Dec. 22 date to negotiate spending
The Shutdown Showdown Looming in Washington
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House Republican leaders are moving to quell a rebellion within their ranks over a stopgap spending bill needed to avert a government shutdown on Saturday by attempting to push forward with a two-week measure that expires Dec. 22.
Republicans emerged from a contentious morning meeting Tuesday saying that House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and other leaders told them that the Senate is resisting a longer stopgap measure backed by the conservative House Freedom Caucus.