Republican lawmakers fear Washington may be headed for a government shutdown later this year after two bruising fights over President Trump's One Big, Beautiful Bill Act and a $9 billion rescissions package has created bad blood on Capitol Hill.

White House budget director Russell Vought says the administration plans to send up another wave of spending rescissions to Congress and GOP leaders are already waving the caution flag on that as some Republicans privately warn it may not have the votes to pass.

After six months of bitter partisan fighting since Trump’s inauguration, Republicans will now need cooperation from Democrats to keep the government funded and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) is warning GOP colleagues not to expect “business as usual.”

One senior Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee put the chances of a shutdown in the fall at “a real square 50-50.”

The lawmaker warned that if the White House sends up another rescissions package, “it will be met with mixed results.”

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“I agree with John Thune that we need to get to a regular appropriations process and I think it gets in the way of that. So the timing, if they do another one, is going to have to be better timed and [have] much more detail,” the senator said, referring to Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.).

The senator acknowledged that Democrats........

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