McConnell Offers Confidence on Government Funding, Gorsuch
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he’s confident that Congress will avoid a government shutdown at the end of April, and that the Senate will confirm Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick this week -- even as his Democratic counterpart said Neil Gorsuch doesn’t have 60 votes in favor.
The Kentucky Republican weighed in on the first discussions about government-wide spending of President Donald Trump’s administration on “Fox News Sunday,” saying the appropriations committees of the House and Senate were “working on the bills on a bipartisan basis” to fund the government after April 28.