Spending Fights Await Lawmakers & Anti-Establishment Fervor Doesn't Trickle Down Ballot

31/08/2016 11 min
Spending Fights Await Lawmakers & Anti-Establishment Fervor Doesn't Trickle Down Ballot

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With little possibility of any of the 12 spending bills getting done to prevent a government shutdown, lawmakers return to consider stopgap tricks to fund the government beyond September 30. The question is for how long, says CQ Roll Call’s Ryan McCrimmon. Simone Path reports that despite the rise of anti-establishment candidates like Bernie Sanders and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, voters in primary races picked the most established of candidates, Marco Rubio and John McCain.
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