With six days until the government runs out of money House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has a choice to make does he risk a shutdown to keep his job or does he cross his Republican hardliners by working with Democrats . McCarthy is allowing Republicans to move forward with voting on a series of appropriations bills this week even though they will be dead on arrival in the Democraticcontrolled Senate . Time is running out and Republicans have failed to rally around a shortterm option . McCarthy has both publicly and privately tried to compel members of his conference to unite around something anything to strengthen their leverage in spending talks with the Senate . McCarthy though has stopped short of committing to putting a Senatepassed shortterm spending bill on the floor knowing that doing so could mean a call for his ouster . The House will return Tuesday and begin votes on a yearlong spending bills to fund the departments of Defense State Agriculture and Homeland Security. But each of those bills could still face uncertainty on the House floor. McCarthy hopes he hopes that moving more individual bills could bring some hardline colleagues on a stopgap bill to the House of Representatives to work with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to agree to an agreement with the speaker . The Senate bill could still be a step away from McCarthy . McCarthy says he will not put it on the the House. He hopes that he hopes to bring some individual bills back to the Senate to negotiate with the House to agree on a compromise. The House of Congress to agree a compromise that would still face a compromise . The compromise is a step back to a compromise to avoid a compromise, but it may still face hurdles. It is not a step that would not be agreed to a deal. The Senate of Representatives. The bill is not an easy step away. It will not
McCarthy confronts key decisions as Congress hurtles toward government shutdown . McCarthy faces key decisions to
