
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Thursday morning said the Senate will pass a stopgap funding bill to avoid a shutdown.
The Senate Republicans have blocked Schumer’s attempt to raise the debt ceiling twice in one week.
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Government funding expires at 11:59:59 pm et Thursday.
Speaking from the senate floor, McConnell said the stopgap bill will be passed “without the poison pill of a debt limit increase.”
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says a government funding deal will go through and a shutdown will be avoided. pic.twitter.com/qAH3CMIjBf
— CBS News (@CBSNews) September 30, 2021
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