{"id":344519,"date":"2018-01-19T11:39:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T10:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-government-faces-shutdown-over-spending-bill\/"},"modified":"2018-01-19T11:39:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T10:39:15","slug":"presstv-us-government-faces-shutdown-over-spending-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-government-faces-shutdown-over-spending-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US government faces shutdown over spending bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Legislation to stave off an imminent US government shutdown encountered obstacles in Congress after the Senate opposed a bill by the House of Representatives.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Republican-controlled House approved funding through February 16 on a mostly partisan vote of 230-197, sending the stopgap bill to the Senate for consideration as President Donald Trump pushed hard for a measure to sign before Friday\u2019s deadline.<\/p>\n<p>However, a mix of Democrats and Republicans in the Senate who oppose the House bill for varying reasons left the legislation on the verge of defeat. A bitter fight broke out on the Senate floor shortly after the House passage and was expected to continue on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uncertainty in the Senate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nine Senate Democrats who had voted for a prior spending measure in December said they would not support the latest proposed four-week extension, joining other Democrats in the Senate who oppose the short-term deal.<\/p>\n<p>A growing number of Republicans&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/01\/19\/549433\/Republican-Democrat-federal-government-senate-House-DACA\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legislation to stave off an imminent US government shutdown encountered obstacles in Congress after the Senate opposed a bill by the House of Representatives. The Republican-controlled House approved funding through February 16 on a mostly partisan vote of 230-197, sending the stopgap bill to the Senate for consideration as President Donald Trump pushed hard for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-344519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}