Republicans plan short-term funding extension, daring Democrats on shutdown

House Republicans plan to try to extend government funding until mid-Novemberto buy more time for bipartisan spending negotiations and avoid an Oct. 1 federal shutdown.

But that move may still not keep the government open.GOP leaders are not planning to include Democratic health care priorities, such as an extension of Affordable Care Act insurance subsidies set to expire at the end of the year - setting up a choice for Democrats, whose votes will be needed in the Senate,between a short-term extension that they had no input on or a government shutdown.

Republicans say they want to make the funding extension, known as a continuing resolution, as “clean” as possible, meaning it does not include policy priorities favorable to either side. The one exception might be possible inclusion of a b