Ted Cruz says gov­ern­ment shut­down is ‘very like­ly’ amid spend­ing fights

Sen. Ted Cruz (R‑TX) said on Mon­day that Con­gress was unlike­ly to pre­vent a gov­ern­ment shut­down as the dead­line nears.
The fed­er­al gov­ern­ment runs out of fund­ing on Sept. 30, mean­ing the House and Sen­ate each have less than 10 in-ses­sion days between now and then to find a res­o­lu­tion in order to pre­vent a shut­down. Fur­ther com­pli­cat­ing mat­ters, House and Sen­ate appro­pri­a­tors have spent months mark­ing up gov­ern­ment fund­ing bills at dif­fer­ent spend­ing lev­els.
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Both sides are cer­tain to blame one anoth­er for the seem­ing­ly inevitable shut­down, though near­ly all par­ties involved say they oppose let­ting the gov­ern­ment run out of mon­ey.
“So, lis­ten, I don’t think we should have a shut­down, but I agree with you that I think it is very like­ly,” Cruz said in an inter­view Mon­day morn­ing. “I think the rea­son it is like­ly is I think [Pres­i­dent] Joe Biden and [Sen­ate Minor­i­ty Leader] Chuck Schumer (D‑NY) both believe polit­i­cal­ly it is in their best inter­est to have a shut­down.”
“They believe that in a shut­down, the press will eager­ly blame …