by Emily Brooks, Mychael Schnell and Aris Folley at The Hill
The progress in spending and shutdown talks that House Republicans were touting Wednesday night was revealed to be a mirage by midday Thursday, dealing Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) a blow and keeping the conference in a state of turmoil.
An attempted redo on a Pentagon appropriations bill failed again Thursday. A revamped framework for a GOP-only stopgap to prevent a government shutdown on Oct. 1 still faces enough conservative opposition to block it.
The result is a Congress no closer to averting a government shutdown than at the beginning of the week, when the House GOP conference opened with a different promised deal from conservative and more centrist Republicans.
With just nine days to go before a potential shutdown,…
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