Congress trying to stave off partial government shutdown
ABC News
Congress is trying to avert one crisis while staving off another
WASHINGTON -- Congress is trying to avert one crisis while staving off another with the Senate poised to approve legislation that would fund the federal government into early December.
The House is expected to pass the measure after the Senate vote Thursday, preventing a partial government shutdown when the new budget year begins Friday.
Democrats were forced to remove a suspension of the federal government's borrowing limit from the bill at the insistence of Republicans. If the debt limit isn't raised by Oct. 18, the United States probably will face a financial crisis and economic recession, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said.
Republicans say Democrats have the votes to raise the debt limit on their own, and Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is insisting they do so.
