“It’s only June, and already Congress is threatening to ruin New Year’s Eve,” Politico reports.
“With just over three months until the next shutdown deadline, the two parties are nowhere near a bipartisan deal to fund the government by the start of the new fiscal year. So top lawmakers are predicting that Congress will revert back to its worn-out habit: punting until the holiday season.
It’s a classic forcing mechanism when members are particularly eager to escape the Capitol dome.”