Thune Says House Should Consider Return to Pass Longer Stopgap

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said it’s time for the House to start thinking about returning to Washington to change the proposed stopgap’s funding date beyond Nov. 21 as the government shutdown drags on.

“For sure, every day that passes, we have less time to fund the government,” Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters Monday. “Every week that drags by, it’s going to become harder and harder to actually have a normal appropriations process.”

The government has been shut down since Oct. 1 — the longest government-wide funding lapse — as the Senate continues to repeatedly vote on the stopgap measure ( ...