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U.S. NEWS Friday 1 december 2017

GOP pressing plan to avert government shutdown on Dec. 8

votes will be needed to “The Republicans have the ernment open,” Pelosi told
pass any omnibus spend- majority in the House and reporters.
ing bill next year — say they the Senate and the White But Senate Democrats,
won’t supply votes to keep House. The responsibility to who have the power to
the government open in keep government open is block any stopgap spend-
the near term unless the im- theirs in the majority, and ing measure, aren’t taking
migration issue is resolved. it’s up to them to keep gov- as hard a line. q

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., joined by House Armed
Services Committee members and Chairman Mac Thornberry,
R-Texas, right, as Ryan puts his signature on the Defense
spending bill before it goes to the president, on Capitol Hill in
Washington, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017.
(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Continued from Front spite issuing an executive
But the emerging scenario order reversing the Obama
represents progress of sorts administration protections,
after a tit-for-tat battle on officially called Deferred
Tuesday between Trump Action for Childhood Arriv-
and top Capitol Hill Dem- als, or DACA, starting next
ocrats scotched a White spring.
House meeting slated to Democrats want the issue
discuss the crush of year- resolved this year, but GOP
end business. leaders — facing many
Both sides want to give ne- rank and file lawmakers op-
gotiations another chance posed to the idea — aren’t
to produce an agreement in any hurry.
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“We’re going to give it issue to legislation to keep
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going to see if they can The Trump White House is DECEMBER 1st – DECEMBER 23rd
resolve something,” said pressing to address other
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A key unresolved issue in- The deadline’s March,”
volves legislation to pro- said House Speaker Paul
tect immigrants who were Ryan, R-Wis.
brought to the U.S. illegally “But if they want to get to
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