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House speaker faces early vote on government spending bill that could make shutdown more likely if it fails to passHere are two tweets from Axios illustrating the split over government funding among House Republicans that could result in a shutdown in a matter of days.South Carolina’s Ralph Norman is a member of the rightwing Freedom Caucus and among those rejecting the current short-term funding proposal that Kevin McCarthy’s wing of the Republican party wants to pass. The measure would cut spending and increase border security in exchange for keeping the government open through October, but Norman plainly says a government shutdown is necessary to extract even deeper cuts: Continue reading...