Article snippet: Lawmakers are rushing to pass a bipartisan border deal that would prevent a looming government shutdown and resolve the long-standing impasse over MORE’s border wall. The Senate will go first and vote Thursday. Then, Democratic leaders said, the House will take up the funding package Thursday evening and send it to Trump. That should give the president plenty of time to sign the bill into law before money runs out for a handful of federal agencies at midnight Saturday. But the top two GOP leaders — Minority Leader MORE (R-La.), close Trump allies — said Wednesday they would not commit to voting for the deal until they got a chance to read the bill’s text. “I want to make sure we have enough time to thoroughly read the bill,” McCarthy told reporters. “Why would anybody say they are voting for something they have not read yet?” Democrats said they planned to unveil the legislation Wednesday night. To try to slow things down, the far-right House Freedom Caucus rolled out a one-week stopgap funding bill, or continuing resolution (CR), to buy lawmakers more time to read the bill — an effort that will be ignored by Democrats who control the floor. Dozens of Republicans are expected to vote no on the deal, with one leadership ally predicting there could be as many as 140 GOP defections during the Thursday roll call. That would mean, rather than a big bipartisan vote in the House, newly empowered Democrats largely would be responsible for pushing the funding bill acro... Link to the full article to read more