Congress returned from its August recess last week and took no action on putting together a plan to avoid a Federal government shutdown. There are now 22 days until the end of the federal fiscal year when the government runs out of funding authority. Republican Congressional leaders and the Trump White House are still strategizing about how to keep the agencies open beyond Sept. 30. None of the 12 appropriations bills has yet been completed and only a few have actually reached the floor in their respective chambers. Congress is in session this week and next, but then lawmakers depart for a week for Rosh Hashanah.
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