US braces for government shutdown as funding deadline looms

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🗓️ 30 September 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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A government shutdown will begin Sunday if lawmakers on Capitol Hill don’t reach a deal. Sources tell CNN that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told his Republican conference there aren’t many options left to avoid a shutdown. Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal tells Anderson Cooper if she thinks there’s a realistic scenario where Republicans team up with Democrats in the next 24 hours to keep the government open. Plus, a suspect was arrested for the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur. CNN Senior National Correspondent Sara Sidner joins AC360 after speaking to Shakur’s stepbrother who wants to know what took so long.

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0:00.0	Tonight on 360 breaking news and a government shutdown just a day away in the House Speaker
0:05.9	who can't seem to stop it.
0:07.7	Also tonight, 27 years after two-parks of courage and murder, a man police say ordered his
0:12.2	death is now in custody, plus live reporting after some of the most rain and worst flooding
0:17.6	New York has ever seen and it's not over yet.
0:20.5	Good evening.
0:21.5	Thanks for joining us.
0:22.5	We begin tonight with breaking news in the likelihood that 28 hours from now, one minute
0:27.3	past midnight, the federal government will shut down.
0:30.2	Now, in a moment, you'll meet some of the men and women who will be left without paychecks
0:33.8	if it does, but still have the same bills to pay.
0:37.0	First though, the man largely responsible for it, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
0:40.8	It's not so much what he's done that's led to all this, it's what he's been unable to
0:44.9	do.
0:45.9	Speaker McCarthy, for weeks now, has not been able to get the right wing of his narrow
0:48.8	majority to agree on stopgap funding to keep the government running, nor has he been willing
0:53.9	to work with Democrats instead, or even to grab onto a lifeline and take up a temporary
0:58.2	spending measure with broad bipartisan support in the Senate.
1:01.6	Instead, today, he brought a bill to the floor that was soundly rejected with 21 Republicans
1:06.0	many of them hardliners joining Democrats in defeating it at a press conference shortly
1:10.5	before the vote Speaker McCarthy was asked why he was pushing legislation that was
1:14.6	dead on arrival.
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