Congress has less than two full weeks to agree to some form of legislation that will fund the government past its Sept. 30 deadline, but as hard-line House GOP members buck a recently announced continuing resolution brokered between the House Freedom Caucus and the Republican Main Street Caucus, it appears that the nation is barreling perilously close to a government shutdown.

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