GOP Senators Raise Risk Of Government Shutdown Ahead Of Cont. Res. Vote

The Senate must pass a short-term Continuing Resolution (CR) today, or tomorrow, to avert a government shutdown at midnight tomorrow, and allow time to complete work on a $1.7 trillion FY23 omnibus.

• Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said the Senate could pass the weeklong CR today, providing there isn't any “unwelcome brouhaha.”
• A group of Republican Senators, led by Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Mike Lee (R-UT) yesterday railed against Democrat "extortion" by threat of government shutdown and called for a longer CR into the next Congress, when the GOP takes the House.
• Johnson: “...I supported Senator Lee’s unanimous consent request yesterday to pass the CR that gets us into next year [...] to give a Republican House an opportunity to respond [and] give us time to start understanding what these numbers actually mean.”
• Lee: “I don't see any reason why Republicans should jump to their aid. Remember [Democrats] can't do this without at least 10 republicans in the Senate."
• Lee said he will oppose a last-minute omnibus bill because, “none of us have seen it. The public hasn't seen it, the press hasn't seen it.”