The government will shut down on Tuesday at midnight if Congress doesn’t pass a short-term budget bill.

Republicans want a “clean” continuing resolution (CR), meaning keeping the same funding levels the government is running on now.

Democrats want the bill to make expanded tax cuts from the Affordable Care Act permanent and undo cuts to healthcare that were passed earlier this summer as part of H.R.1.

“We can and should avoid a shutdown,” U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said outside of the Connecticut State Capitol before boarding a flight to D.C. “It's easily avoidable if Republicans would just agree to save health care for millions of Americans who otherwise will be unable to afford it.”

GOP leadership has said they’re willing to work out the ACA tax cuts later, but Democrats say

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