Sen­ate Major­i­ty Leader Mitch McConnell (R‑Ky.) reject­ed the gov­ern­ment fund­ing res­o­lu­tion House Democ­rats intro­duced Mon­day, leav­ing the U.S. gov­ern­ment on the verge of a shutdown.The cur­rent gov­ern­ment fund­ing pack­age only lasts anoth­er nine days, so on Mon­day, Democ­rats released a draft res­o­lu­tion that would extend in through Dec. 11. But McConnell alleged the Democ­rats’ pro­pos­al “shame­ful­ly leaves out key relief and sup­port” for farm­ers via Com­mod­i­ty Cred­it Corp. fund­ing — though CNN reports the Trump admin­is­tra­tion views those funds as “an unac­count­able polit­i­cal slush fund.”> Senior Dem aide says the Trump admin views the CCC funds as “an unac­count­able polit­i­cal slush fund.”> > McConnell makes clear Rs want it in any CR. > > 9 days til gov­ern­ment fund­ing dead­line.… https://t.co/AgUazyMW2G> > — Phil Mat­ting­ly (@Phil_Mattingly) Sep­tem­ber 21, 2020House Speak­er Nan­cy Pelosi (D‑Calif.) on Sun­day reject­ed the idea that she’d use the spend­ing bill as lever­age to stop Sen­ate Repub­li­cans from fill­ing Jus­tice Ruth Bad­er Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat. “None of us has any inter­est in shut­ting down gov­ern­ment, that has such a harm­ful and shame­ful impact on so many peo­ple in our coun­try,” she said, adding that “we have arrows in our quiver.“More sto­ries from theweek.com Democ­rats have a bet­ter option than court pack­ing Trump sup­port­ers boo Ohio’s GOP lieu­tenant gov­er­nor for encour­ag­ing mask use Biden and Trump will talk Supreme Court, COVID-19, and elec­tion integri­ty at 1st pres­i­den­tial debate