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

House Republicans plan to try to extend government funding through Nov. 21 to buy more time for bipartisan spending negotiations and avoid an Oct. 1 federal shutdown.

But that move still might 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 little input on or a government shutdown.