There are always spending fights in these continuing resolutions, as senators typically push for pet projects that will benefit their states. And if republicans bulk at funding any of those, what it does is allowed democrats to frame it as a refusal to codifit game marriage. If they can't pass something by then we will see a government shut down.
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