With just five days to go, there is still no viable plan in Congress to avert a government shutdown and a sense of inevitability has set in as lawmakers brace for federal funding to expire at the end of the week.
Leadership in both chambers wants to pass a short-term funding extension, but a bloc of hardline House conservatives have railed against the prospect of a stopgap bill and ramped up pressure on Speaker Kevin McCarthy to choose between a shutdown or a vote to oust him from his leadership post.
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