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Live from NPR News in Washington. I'm Jack Spear. House Conservatives want Speaker Mike Johnson to walk away from a deal he made

with Democrats setting government funding levels.

MBR's D.J.

Dijer Walsh reports there's just one week until a deadline for a partial government shutdown.

Speaker Johnson met Friday with Conservative and moderate Republicans to discuss legislation

to fund federal agencies through the rest of this fiscal year.

Last weekend he announced a bipartisan deal that largely stuck to levels based on an agreement

former Speaker McCarthy made with President Biden last year.

In the face of blowback from many on the right, Johnson says he's sticking with the deal.

Our top line agreement remains.

We are getting our next steps together together and we are working toward a robust

appropriations process. Lawmakers expect another short-term funding bill will be

needed to avoid a partial shutdown. The speaker declined to say whether he would back one, but

Senate Democrats started the process to vote on a stopgap next week.

Deirdre Walsh, NPR News, the Capitol. The Supreme Court is agreeing to consider whether efforts to bar unhoused people from public

camping sites amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.

Jefferson Public Radio's Jane Vaughn reports the case stems from a lawsuit in

Southern Oregon. In 2020 a district court in Medford, Oregon ruled that the city of

grants passes ordinances on homelessness were unconstitutional. The court said people who were involuntarily homeless were being punished with

tickets and fines for resting in public when they had nowhere else to go.

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