WASHINGTON, United States -- The United States is less than two weeks away from a potential government shutdown, with the stakes increasing as lawmakers struggle to agree on a short-term spending bill.
Several budget bills are currently being discussed in Washington, but none have enough votes to clear both the Democrat-majority Senate and the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.
Although policymakers are generally keen to avoid this situation, some supporters aligned with former president Donald Trump have so far opposed every bill on the table. "I will not vote to fund a single penny to the war in Ukraine, COVID anything, and the political weaponized government," said far-right Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene on X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter.
In June, the United States narrowly avoided a possible debt default, as US senators voted to suspend the federal debt limit after weeks of fraught negotiations.
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