The GOP is stuck and that could mean a government shutdown.

Hey there, from CNN, I'm David Rhine with the five things you need to know for Saturday, September 23rd.

Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is logging some weekend hours at the Capitol

with a deadline to fund the government just one week away.

He's still searching for enough support for members of his own party to back a stopgap funding measure.

He admitted he doesn't have the votes yet, but he's hopeful the hardliners will budge as it gets closer to that deadline.

I think when it gets crunch time, people will find... to that have been

have been holding off all this time will finally move off because shutting down

and having border agents not be paid, your Coast Guard not get paid, I don't see how that's a victory.

You may have heard about this story out of Texas, a 17 year old black high school student has been suspended for more than three weeks

because of his hairstyle. Barbers Hill High School officials say Darryl George's

lock hairstyle violates the school dress code, which places limitations

on hair length for male students.

While now George and his mother are suing Texas Governor Greg Abbott and the state's

Attorney General Ken Paxton

for allegedly failing to enforce the Crown Act,

which is a law that protects against hair discrimination.

CNN has reached out to Abbott and Paxton's offices for comment as well as the attorneys for the

Barbers Hill Independent School District.

Are you ready to go back to work?

Yes.

I think we all are.

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