House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced this week that Democrats would combine a short-term government funding bill with a measure to suspend the U.S. debt limit, in a bid to avoid a government shutdown. In a joint statement on Sept. 20, Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said the “American people expect our Republican colleagues to live up to their responsibilities and make good on the debts they proudly helped incur in the December 2020 ‘908’ COVID package that helped American families and small businesses reeling from the COVID crisis.” Democrats will try to push the bill ahead of the Sept. 30 deadline to fund the government, according to the statement. “Both Republicans and Democrats have priorities they want to see addressed in the regular order appropriations process for Fiscal Year 2022, and an extension of government funding through December will provide an appropriate amount of time for …
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