Brown: GOP Wants to Avoid Shutdown
The Hill reports:
Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) said Monday that he does not believe Republicans want a government shutdown, but that both parties need to come together to tackle the nation’s deficit problems.
“I'm hopeful that everyone will kind of get in a room and just hammer things out and look at the budget and say, ‘Yes, we can keep this; we can't keep that,’ and send a very important message to the people of the country and the world that we're serious,” Brown said in an interview on NBC’s “Today.”
Talk about a potential government shutdown has increased of late. The GOP-controlled House passed a spending measure recently that cut some $60 billion from current spending levels for this fiscal year, but Senate Democrats have indicated that legislation has little chance of gaining traction in their chamber.
With both the House and the Senate out of Washington this week, lawmakers will be back in Washington for just a few days before the current law funding the government expires on March 4. Republicans have indicated that any short-term measure on government funding would need to include spending cuts.
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