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The US inched closer to a government shutdown after hardline Republicans rejected a last-minute funding deal in the House of Representatives.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Congress faces a deadline of midnight on Saturday to pass a new budget before thousands of federal employees are placed on unpaid leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Senate has forged ahead with plans for a temporary funding agreement – which House Republicans have opposed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The two chambers of Congress are controlled by different parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Republican-led House of Representatives failed to pass its own short-term spending bill on Friday, with 232 votes against the measure and 198 in favour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More than a dozen of the most hardline Republican representatives voted against its passage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After the vote on Friday, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said the chamber might still pass a funding extension, but he declined to say what would happen next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “It’s only a failure if you quit,” he told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The House adjourned on Friday evening without reaching a deal. Members will return on Saturday 10:00 local time (15:00 GMT), when more votes are expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Their plan would have extended funding through the end of October but included deep spending cuts that would have made it a non-starter for Democrats, who run the Senate, as well as border provisions that many Democrats have opposed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n President Joe Biden on Friday warned that a shutdown could take a heavy toll on the armed forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We can’t be playing politics while our troops stand in the breach. It’s an absolute dereliction of duty,” Mr Biden said at a retirement ceremony for Mark Milley, a senior general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The conflicting House and Senate funding plans have increased the likelihood of a shutdown and have exposed deep rifts in the Republican party, with some lawmakers expressing exasperation at the hardline conservatives who have so far stood in the way of a funding deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n California Republican Mike Garcia, for example, told Reuters that he felt “frustrated” as the shutdown loomed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BBC News: The US inched closer to a government shutdown after hardline Republicans rejected a last-minute funding deal in the House of Representatives. Congress faces a deadline of midnight on Saturday to pass a new budget before thousands of federal employees are placed on unpaid leave. The Senate has forged ahead with plans for a temporary funding agreement – which House Republicans have opposed. The two chambers of Congress are controlled by different parties. The Republican-led House of Representatives failed to pass its own short-term spending bill on Friday, with 232 votes against the measure and 198 in favour. More… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35206,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35204\/revisions\/35206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}