Congress closing in on shutdown deadline with no clear plan

Congress closing in on shutdown deadline with no clear plan

Congress is struggling to strike a deal to keep the government funded as a looming deadline to prevent a shutdown next month gets closer. Lawmakers are less than a month away from a mid-March date to pass legislation to prevent a funding lapse — or risk the first shutdown in years.  “We can’t have precisely the same kind of deal we had before, and we’re trying to work to find some common ground,” House Appropriations Committee Chair Tom Cole (R-…