Republican leaders are showing their willingness to confront Tea Party conservatives, raising hopes that the US will avoid another government shutdown in January.
Mitch McConnell, the Republican minority leader in the Senate, said yesterday that there would be no more shutdowns even as he brushed off his own danger from a hard-right opponent in elections next year.
“Shutting down the government, in my view, is not conservative policy,” said the Kentucky senator on the CBS programme Face the Nation. “So there will not be another government shutdown. You can count on that.”
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