Clock Is Ticking Toward Government Shutdown
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Thursday, January 18, 2018
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., flanked by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., left, and Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, speaks to reporters about efforts to avoid a government shutdown this weekend, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
The federal government will partially shutdown Friday night unless Congress approves a spending plan. Democrats also want to get a resolution to the DACA program that covers people brought illegally to the U.S. as children.
Here & Now‘s Robin Young get the latest on the negotiations with NPR’s Jessica Taylor ().
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