Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is holding out hope that Congress can walk back from the brink of a government shutdown.
“Some of the very same House Republicans who were … trying to make the pain of the people of East Palestinian, Ohio, into a partisan political issue would cut railroad safety inspections. It makes no sense,” he added.
“The focus of the administration is to get the House Republicans to live up to a deal they already made,” Buttigieg added to NBC. Both McCarthy and hardliners are eager to take up each spending bill individually, but the House is widely agreed that it lacks sufficient time to complete that before Sept. 30.Getty Images
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