Congress Is Inching Closer to a Shutdown Over Immigration and Obamacare
- Unresolved battles between parties to be revived in December
- Trump’s shifting stances in negotiations create ‘wild card’
Trump's Agenda Slowed by Obamacare, Nafta Rifts
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The year’s most divisive fights in Congress are set to converge in a bitter partisan clash in December that could result in a U.S. government shutdown.
The unresolved battles -- over a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, immigration, health-care subsidies, Planned Parenthood and storm relief -- are hanging over talks on must-pass spending legislation to keep the government open after Dec. 8. The spending measure is at risk of becoming so weighted with controversial items that it collapses.