Punchbowl News: “Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who lost a floor vote today on a stopgap funding bill, said just 36 hours before the government shuts down that Republicans have four options to resolve the crisis.”
“They can pass a Republican-penned funding bill. They can “dare Democrats” to vote against a clean CR with disaster relief – buying time to pass more spending bills.
They can pass a Senate-approved CR, which will likely include Ukraine aid, disaster relief and potentially some border-security funding – if and when that’s passed (See below.) Or they could shut the government down.”“It seems quite clear to us that Republicans are going to shut the government down. So Option 4.”