Shutdown Risks Rise as Democrats Issue Ambitious Counteroffer
Senator Susan Collins, a Republican from Maine, center, at the US Capitol in Washington on Wednesday.
Photographer: Graeme Sloan/BloombergAn increasingly rancorous standoff over funding the US government intensified Wednesday as congressional Democrats swung big on a counteroffer, ratcheting up the risk of an Oct. 1 shutdown.
Democrats are demanding President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans agree to health care policy changes that House Speaker Mike Johnson has said have “zero” chance of becoming law as part of the spending bill.