McCarthy Revises Plan to Avert Shutdown, Flips Some Holdouts
- GOP tries to make opening offer in stopgap spending talks
- Senate progress on spending also stalled amid disputes
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy won the support of a few hardliners Wednesday night in his effort to quell his restive right flank and pass a short-term spending bill, but the risk of a US government shutdown remains high just 10 days before a funding lapse.
After a closed-door meeting that lasted more than two hours, the besieged speaker was still short of the votes he needs to pass a Republican-only spending measure that has no chance of winning support in the Democratic-controlled Senate.