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House lawmakers are back in Washington and the first item up is a stopgap spending bill designed to keep the government funded through early December. The immediate political problem is that even a “clean” patch can turn into a proxy war over Trump’s agenda, federal spending priorities, and whether Congress can do basic arithmetic without breaking into ideological knife fighting.
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House lawmakers are back in Washington and the first item up is a stopgap spending bill designed to keep the government funded through early December. The immediate political problem is that even a “clean” patch can turn into a proxy war over Trump’s agenda, federal spending priorities, and whether Congress can do basic arithmetic without breaking into ideological knife fighting.
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