Government shutdown over Trump's border wall funding will likely be delayed for Bush's funeral

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published 2 December 2018

Funding for part of the federal government is set to run out at midnight Friday. However, Congress is expected to pass — and President Trump to approve — a brief stopgap spending measure to delay a likely partial shutdown until after former President George H.W. Bush's funeral events are completed.

"If they come to talk about an extension because of President Bush's passing, I would absolutely consider it and probably give it," Trump told reporters Saturday.

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Bush's Washington funeral is scheduled for Wednesday.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.