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White House Downplays Shutdown Chances

Associated Press

   The White House is signaling it's not interested in a government
   shutdown when a temporary government-wide spending bill expires Nov.
   21.

   White House congressional liaison Eric Ueland told reporters that
   President Donald Trump would sign another short-term stopgap spending
   bill to prevent a shutdown, so long as Democrats don't try to tie
   Trump's hands on funding for the U.S.-Mexico border wall.

   Trump had refused to rule out a shutdown when asked about it Sunday,
   but there's no appetite for one among his allies on Capitol Hill. There
   has been speculation about a potential shutdown but no evidence that
   one is actually brewing.

   Ueland said Trump wants "the spending process to continue to unfold and
   the government to continue to be funded."

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