Good morning.

It's Saturday, September 30th.

I'm Charles Coleman Jr. filling in for my friend and colleague, Ali Belche.

We have got a lot to talk about.

There are just 14 hours left before funding for the federal government runs dry.

The pressure is running high and the clock is running out.

What's worse is that some Republicans don't even seem to care.

There's still no deal in sight to avoid a painful and costly government shutdown.

Federal agencies have already notified workers about what to expect if a shutdown occurs

this weekend, a possibility that appears increasingly likely at this stage.

Yesterday afternoon, House Republicans failed to pass a stopgap measure that their own

members crafted. A small group of Republican holdouts numbering in about 21 voted against it.

But that small group was more than enough to tank the bill and send Republicans back to

square one, possibly taking any hope of avoiding a shutdown with them.

It was the latest sign of the ongoing division and disarray among the House GOP conference.

Since the beginning of this year, unresolved tensions between Speaker Kevin McCarthy and a handful

of the party's extremists led by Florida Congressman Matt Gates have repeatedly threatened

to bring a government shutdown to our door.

And now it appears that they are willing to make good on those threats.

As things stand right now, neither the House nor the Senate have managed to pass any bills

that can avert a shutdown.

Now if no deal is reached by midnight tonight, about 820,000 federal employees, that's nearly

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