Conservatives Balk At Gop Plan To Avert Government Shutdown

By ALAN FRAM and ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle: Politics
Tue, 01/16/2018 - 11:45pm

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hard-line conservatives threatened late Tuesday to scuttle Republican leaders' plans to prevent a weekend government shutdown, saying GOP leaders now lack the votes to push their proposal through the House. The setback came as a deal between President Donald Trump and Congress to protect young immigrants from deportation also remained distant. The intransigence by the House Freedom Caucus came as Republican leaders raced against a Friday deadline for pushing a short-term spending bill through Congress.

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