Shutdown deadline poses test for US Congress: Is compromise possible?

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The dome of the U.S. Capitol building is seen on a rainy day as the deadline to avert a government shutdown approaches in Washington, U.S., September 26, 2023. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File PhotoWASHINGTON - As the U.S. Congress eyes another looming partial government shutdown deadline in less than two weeks, it also faces a question: Whether lawmakers, and particularly a small but powerful band of hardline Republicans, are capable of compromise.

"We shouldn't be trying to jam each other on this. We've established that the majority of each party wants to keep the government running," said Republican Representative Tom Cole, who runs a powerful committee that serves as gatekeeper on new legislation. Further complicating matters is a Republican majority so narrow that House Speaker Mike Johnson can afford to lose no more than four party votes on legislation Democrats oppose. That has elevated the power of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus and engulfed Republicans this year in a perpetual political civil war.

"He hasn't decided how that would be structured - if that would happen," House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, the No. 2 Republican, told reporters in the U.S. Capitol on Friday. Hardliners, some of whom orchestrated McCarthy's ouster for passing a CR with Democratic support, are pushing for spending cuts and tighter border security as conditions they would accept in a new stopgap measure.

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