OMB warns government agencies to prepare for government shutdown

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The White House is instructing government agencies to plan for a government shutdown as Congress faces a midnight deadline to pass a spending bill.

“The Office of Management and Budget is currently preparing for a lapse in appropriations,” an official with Office of Management and Budget told the Washington Examiner. “As we stated earlier today, we support the Bipartisan Budget Act and urge Congress to send it to the President’s desk without delay.”

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