House Democrats averted shutdown amid GOP's 'brinkmanship,' Biden's budget director says
House Democrats helped avert a government shutdown, amid "brinkmanship" and "theater" by hard-line conservatives, Biden budget director Shalanda Young argued It was Democrats in the House who helped avert a partial government shutdown this weekend, in the final hours before funding ran out amid " brinkmanship " and "theater" by hard-line conservatives, President Joe Biden's budget director argued on Sunday. "I will tell you, if I'm sick of it, I can only imagine what the American people are feeling," White House Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young told ABC "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl. "Why go down this road, take us so close?" After increasingly urgent deliberations in the House, Republicans on Saturday introduced a stopgap funding bill that will fund the government until Nov. 17, a near "clean" continuing resolution that did not include the priorities of some in the...