State Department says it is planning how to handle a government shutdown

The State Department is worried Congress will not pass the relevant bills to avoid a government shutdown and is planning what it would do in such a situation, spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Wednesday.

Republican U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy rejected a stopgap funding bill advancing in the Senate, bringing Washington closer to its fourth partial shutdown of the U.S. government in a decade with just four days to go.

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