Hard Right Injects Immigration Into Spending Fight, Raising Shutdown Fears
Hard-right House Republicans are threatening to block a stopgap bill to keep the government funded unless it includes a security crackdown along the U.S.-Mexico border, escalating fears of a shutdown within weeks and injecting the supercharged politics of immigration into an already fraught stalemate over federal spending. The ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus, whose demands for…