With choice words and blunt instruments, people chipped away at obstacles in Washington this week — and it wasn’t just the “snowcrete” left by a powerful winter storm.
Senators headed out of town Friday after striking a deal to fund the federal government, but it wasn’t enough to stave off a partial government shutdown over the weekend.
While the House was out this week, Senate leadership struggled to wrangle the last slate of House-approved spending bills through the chamber before the Friday night deadline — a politically fraught task made more challenging by the fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen by federal immigration officers in Minnesota last weekend.
