Government shutdown appears increasingly likely

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🗓️ 22 September 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Sources tell CNN that House Republican leaders are sending their members home for the week as a government shutdown appears increasingly likely. Lawmakers have yet to reach a deal to extend government funding past the critical deadline at the end of the month. House GOP members had planned to work through the weekend to pass a stop-gap bill to fund the government but that strategy is now on hold because of infighting and holdouts within the House Republican conference. Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell tells AC360 it's time for House GOP members to choose "competence over chaos" and keep the government funded. Plus, CNN Senior National Correspondent Ed Lavandera joins AC360 from Eagle Pass, Texas where there's been a surge of migrants crossing the Southern border.

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0:00.0	Burn the whole place down, the words of a frustrated house speaker Kevin McCarthy describing
0:06.7	members of his own party as government funding and his own job or on the line.
0:12.2	Also a CNN exclusive, more evidence of the Coast Guard failing to act on allegations
0:16.1	of sexual misconduct, this time involving a captain turned college president, and later
0:21.5	the outgoing chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley unloads on the former presidents.
0:28.4	So when the going gets tough, Congress goes home.
0:31.8	Tonight there are signs that house speaker Kevin McCarthy is losing or has lost control
0:36.4	of Republicans in the house.
0:38.4	The consequence for him might be his job is in jeopardy.
0:41.7	For America, a functioning open government is in jeopardy.
0:45.6	A shutdown is in just days away, and in the face of that reality McCarthy sent the house
0:50.8	home for a long weekend, mostly because he could not get his Republican members to
0:55.1	agree to anything else.
0:57.0	I'm John Berman, in for Anderson, and the scene today on Capitol Hill was one for
1:00.4	the history books.
1:01.9	President Zelensky of Ukraine was in Washington working around the clock and around the world
1:06.6	to save his country from the Russian invasion, shaking hands and shaking the bipartisan
1:11.1	trees for crucial aid.
1:13.1	So with freedom on the line in Ukraine, house speaker Kevin McCarthy decided to send Congress
1:18.5	home.
1:19.5	But only after a spectacular miscalculation and failure.
1:23.8	It is arcane procedural stuff, but the bottom line is McCarthy thought he had the votes
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