Congress Makes Progress on Spending But Still Stuck on Immigration
A guardsman walks on a barrier topped with concertina wire along the US-Mexico border in Eagle Pass, Texas.
Photographer: Eric Gay/APThis is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, congressional correspondent Erik Wasson looks at the status of two issues on the front burner at the Capitol. Sign up here and follow us at @bpolitics. Email our editors here.
The good news percolating out of the US Capitol today is that the chance of a partial government shutdown in a little more than two weeks may be easing — slightly.