WASHINGTON — The Congress is starkly divided over very different paths to preventing afederal shutdown— the Senate charging ahead with a bipartisan package to temporarily fund the government but the House slogging through a longshot effort with no real chance of finishing by Saturday’s deadline. With days remaining before a federal closure, the stakes are risingwith no resolution at hand.A shutdown wouldfurlough millions of federal employees, leave the military without pay, disrupt air travel an

GOP leadership is preparing for a vote by Thursday, but McCarthy is warning he’ll keep House lawmakers in Washington into the weekend.... It was intended to win support from the conservative wing of the Republican Conference by cutting last year’s overall spending levels by 1%, and including a slew ofRepublican proposals for border securityand immigration.... But even that route is doubtful with time dwindling and McCarthy struggling to push his conference to avert a shutdown.“ There’s quite a

Mitt Romney of Utah, afterannouncing he would not seek reelection in 2024, told reporters Wednesday afternoon, “ I haven’t heard any allegation of something that would rise to the level of a high crime and misdemeanor.” But John Thune of South Dakota, the No.... Lindsey Graham and other senators said they urged the House chairmen to solidify the process by holding a House vote to move forward with the inquiry.“ I think they’d be better off having a vote.... It does give it more legitimacy, ” G