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WASHINGTON - The House voted overwhelmingly Thursday to keep the government open through late November, setting up a huge showdown later this year over President Donald Trump's border wall that could force another shutdown before Thanksgiving.
The short-term nature of Thursday's legislation was the result of failed efforts to complete a broader spending package ahead of Sept. 30, when government funding is set to expire for multiple agencies. The need for the stopgap measure shows how fundamental spending issues between Democrats and Republicans remain unresolved, even though lawmakers believed they had dispatched the thorniest problems in a sweeping budget deal completed over the summer.
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