Johnson and Schumer spar over elusive solution to Friday's shutdown cliff

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Negotiators are still haggling over the four spending measures set to expire at week’s end.

"It is clear now that House Republicans need more time to sort themselves out," Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said. | Mykola Tys/APpossibly alongside another short-term funding patch

Schumer wrote in a letter to colleagues on Sunday that it is his “sincere hope” that Johnson “will step up to once again buck the extremists in his caucus and do the right thing.” Johnson called Schumer’s letter “counterproductive rhetoric,” insisting that House Republicans continue to “work in good faith” and “hope to reach an outcome as soon as possible.”

In the run-up to the shutdown cliff, appropriations staff has been working around the clock in hopes of clinching a deal on some or all of the first four bills set to expire, including the Agriculture-FDA, Energy-Water, Military Construction-VA and Transportation-HUD measures.

 

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