Congress is careening toward another government shutdown deadline.
Without new legislation, crucial services and legions of federal workers will be sidelined or go unpaid as soon as 12:01 a.m. Saturday. The White House and Congress have agreed on spending laws for the rest of the fiscal year, but they may not have time to enact all the legislation before the deadline, so a short partial shutdown might be hard to avert.
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