New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte has joined 24 of her fellow Republican governors calling on Congress to pass a short-term continuing resolution and avoid a “government shutdown that would deeply harm hardworking Americans across our states.”

If Congress doesn’t pass a spending plan, the government is set to shut down at 12:01 a.m. on Oct. 1, when current funding expires. The GOP-controlled House already passed a continuing resolution (CR) that continued current spending, with a small increase in security.

In a letter to the U.S. Senate leadership , the GOP governors urged the Senate to “immediately pass a clean short-term funding extension to prevent a government shutdown that would deeply harm hardworking Americans across our states. With the September 30th funding deadline quickly ap

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