To avoid a government shutdown — and he wants to avoid a government shutdown — House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) — has three options. He can move in the Democrats’ direction, and scrap a requirement that disaster relief funds be offset with a partisan budget cut; he can move in the direction of House conservatives and cut more deeply into federal programs — which would violate a July deal he struck with Democrats; or he can convince those wary conservatives to hold their noses and vote for the federal funding legislation that failed on Wednesday evening.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=106832