Speaker Paul Ryan and his top lieutenants plan to bring a short-term government funding bill to the House floor Thursday despite internal resistance — in hopes of averting a
shutdown and then leaving town for the holidays.
GOP leaders are betting that their conference doesn’t want to trample on its tax victory by shuttering federal agencies. They plan to call up the bill, along with a separate $81 billion disaster package for hurricane relief.
If the House passes the funding patch Thursday, the Senate will move on
it as quickly as possible, GOP aides said.
