John Boehner vs. the Tea Party: The impending showdown

Avoiding a government shutdown won't be easy

Cruz vs. Boehner
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Even as Congress remains embroiled in the situation in Syria, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is barreling toward a showdown with the Tea Party over preventing a government shutdown.

The continuing resolution funding the government runs out at the end of September, and Tea Party Republicans are vowing to use the negotiations as leverage to defund ObamaCare, even if that leads to an impasse that shuts down the federal government.

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.