{"id":30050,"date":"2020-12-17T16:57:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T00:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30050"},"modified":"2020-12-17T16:57:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T00:57:33","slug":"top-gop-senator-warns-of-potential-for-brief-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30050","title":{"rendered":"Top GOP senator warns of potential for brief shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Whip\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/scmlwzjfpbbtgzgbtcmpptllpjthbjbddkpfzshbjkkkmc_xbvdrrhvhtdbgsvpbsjv.html?a=&amp;b=35645\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/scmlwzjfpbbtgzgbtcmpptllpjthbjbddkpfzshbjkkkmc_xbvdrrhvhtdbgsvpbsjv.html?a%3D%26b%3D35645&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1608333392435000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFhoje7uW7gO8C_6T2amfle5SqaPw\">John Thune<\/a>\u00a0(R-S.D.) warned on Thursday that the government could briefly shut down over the weekend as talks over a sweeping deal to pass funding and provide coronavirus relief drag on.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about needing a days-long continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government funded past Friday, Thune indicated senators could block\u00a0a CR if leaders don&#8217;t have a larger deal in hand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I mean I&#8217;ve already \u2014 I know people who are gonna object to that, that want to keep pressure on the process until we get a deal,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, it would take consent obviously to do a short term CR,&#8221; Thune added.<\/p>\n<p>Congress has until the end of Friday to either pass the deal on an omnibus and coronavirus aid \u2014 an unlikely long shot, lawmakers acknowledge, because it&#8217;s still being negotiated. If they don&#8217;t, they&#8217;ll need to buy themselves some more time by passing a CR to prevent the government from briefly shutting down a week before Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Whip\u00a0John Thune\u00a0(R-S.D.) warned on&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30051,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30050\/revisions\/30051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}