Whatevs: Congress has no shutdown plan and won’t rush back to find one

By Susan Ferrechio

Published December 15, 2018 5:00am ET

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Whatevs: Congress has no shutdown plan and won’t rush back to find one — This photo taken July 23, 2013, show the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Congress returns to work this week with a relatively short and simple agenda, vote to keep the government operating in the short term, then return home to campaign. National security threats from Islamic State militants and Russian aggression in Ukraine loom large, but September's session may be too short for lawmakers to do anything but talk about them. | (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Congress left Washington this week without any plan to avoid a government shutdown after Dec. 21, and doesn’t seem to be in any rush to return and sort out the mess.

“No decision has been made yet as to a path forward,” a top aide on the House Appropriations Committee told the Washington Examiner Friday. “Everything is under negotiation.”

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