Hell Week Amid Shutdown Fears - Roll Call

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Hell Week Amid Shutdown Fears

CQ Budget Podcast, Episode 92

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's staff sets up a "#TRUMPSHUTDOWN" poster before her press conference earlier this year. The poster was taken down before the press conference started. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

By David Lerman and Jennifer Shutt

Posted December 17, 2018 at 9:36am

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There is no plan at the moment to prevent a partial government shutdown at the end of the week over President Donald Trump’s insistence for $5 billion for a border wall, explains CQ budget reporter Jennifer Shutt. She games out what the options are to fund the government as lawmakers try to guess Trump’s next steps.

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