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House Democrats draft stopgap funding bill without Republican support

CQ Budget, Ep. 170

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks during her weekly news conference in the Capitol on Friday.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks during her weekly news conference in the Capitol on Friday. (Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)

With only days remaining in the current fiscal year, congressional leaders are struggling to pass a stopgap funding measure to avoid a partial government shutdown. CQ Roll Call’s Jennifer Shutt and David Lerman explain how a partisan dispute over farm payments threatens to derail progress on the measure.

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