Lawmakers Struggle to Find Compromise as Government Shutdown Continues - News Summed Up

Lawmakers Struggle to Find Compromise as Government Shutdown Continues


WASHINGTON—Lawmakers on Sunday entered the second day of a government shutdown with no clear resolution to their differences and facing growing pressure to end the standoff before Monday, when tens of thousands of federal workers would face furloughs if the dispute hasn’t been resolved. The standoff will have to be defused in the Senate, where a spending bill needed to reopen the government requires bipartisan support. A group of centrist Democrats and Republicans huddled Sunday afternoon to see if they could hammer out some...


Source: Wall Street Journal January 21, 2018 14:40 UTC



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