Mark Meadows: Conservatives can support short-term spending bill with no wall funding to avoid shutdown

Published August 29, 2017 10:29pm ET



House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows, R-N.C., said Tuesday most of his group’s members would be willing to pass a temporary, short-term government funding bill when they return to work in September even if it doesn’t include funds for President Trump’s border wall, in order to avoid a partial government shutdown.

Congress will have to pass some kind of spending bill in the few days it’s in next month in order to avoid a partial shutdown at the end of September. But while President Trump and many other Republicans want to see funding for the border wall, Meadows said it might be best to delay that fight until late this year, which would give Republicans more time to work out those details.

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