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WASHINGTON 鈥?Government shutdown or no shutdown President Donald Trump and Republican leaders are trying to salvage priorities like his wall along the Mexico border and immediate increases in defense spending without stumbling into a politically toxic government shutdown in another month. The temporary government-wide spending bill runs out at midnight April 28, and Trump needs Democratic help in getting the legislation done.It always been a negotiation and they ;ve never been able to pass one without Democratic votes, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Thursday.Said Rep. Chris Collins, R-N.Y., We 821 stanley cup 7;re probably going to need bipartisan votes to keep the government open.Behind the scenes, lawmakers are working on the $1 tril stanley cup lion-plus legislation to keep the government running through Sept. 30, the end of the budget year. The emerging spending compromise, aides and lawmakers say, is shaping up pretty stanley cup much as it would have if former President Barack Obama were in the Oval Office.The key complications are Trump requests for $30 billion for an immediate infusion of cash for the Pentagon and $3 billion for additional security measures on the U.S.-Mexico border, including $1 billion to build fencing and a levee wall along 60 miles or so about 100 kilometers in Texas and near San Diego.Trump repeatedly said during the campaign that Mexico would pay for the wall, but the administration has made clear U.S. tax dolla Qcdl WATCH: State Department Deputy Secretary Wendy Sherman holds a briefing about Afghanistan
SACRAMENTO, Calif. AP 鈥?California regulators this week proposed delaying new rules aimed at reducing how much water people use on their lawns, drawing praise from agencies that said they needed more time to comply but criticism from environmentalists who warn that the delay would damage the state already scarce supply.Last year, California proposed new rules that would, cumulatively, reduce statewide water use by about 14 percent. Those rules included lowering outdoor water use standards below the current statewide average by 2035. On Tuesday, regulators proposed delaying that timeline by five years, until 2040. The State Water Resources Control Board is scheduled to vote on the rules later th airmax is year.The state would not punish people for using too much water on their lawns. Instead, it could punish the water agency that supplied those homes. There are about 405 of these agencies throughout the state that provide water to nearly 95 percent of Californians.To comply with the rules, these agencies must convince their customers to use less water. Their options include public education campaigns and incentives, such as paying to install more efficient fixtures and replacing grass lawns with more sustaina stanley cup ble plants. They could also raise rates.READ MORE: D stanley cup rought-prone California approves new rules for turning wastewater directly into drinking waterState officials estimated it would cost water agencies about $13.5 billion to comply with these rules 鈥?an estimate Chelsea H
WASHINGTON 鈥?Government shutdown or no shutdown President Donald Trump and Republican leaders are trying to salvage priorities like his wall along the Mexico border and immediate increases in defense spending without stumbling into a politically toxic government shutdown in another month. The temporary government-wide spending bill runs out at midnight April 28, and Trump needs Democratic help in getting the legislation done.It always been a negotiation and they ;ve never been able to pass one without Democratic votes, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Thursday.Said Rep. Chris Collins, R-N.Y., We 821 stanley cup 7;re probably going to need bipartisan votes to keep the government open.Behind the scenes, lawmakers are working on the $1 tril stanley cup lion-plus legislation to keep the government running through Sept. 30, the end of the budget year. The emerging spending compromise, aides and lawmakers say, is shaping up pretty stanley cup much as it would have if former President Barack Obama were in the Oval Office.The key complications are Trump requests for $30 billion for an immediate infusion of cash for the Pentagon and $3 billion for additional security measures on the U.S.-Mexico border, including $1 billion to build fencing and a levee wall along 60 miles or so about 100 kilometers in Texas and near San Diego.Trump repeatedly said during the campaign that Mexico would pay for the wall, but the administration has made clear U.S. tax dolla Qcdl WATCH: State Department Deputy Secretary Wendy Sherman holds a briefing about Afghanistan
SACRAMENTO, Calif. AP 鈥?California regulators this week proposed delaying new rules aimed at reducing how much water people use on their lawns, drawing praise from agencies that said they needed more time to comply but criticism from environmentalists who warn that the delay would damage the state already scarce supply.Last year, California proposed new rules that would, cumulatively, reduce statewide water use by about 14 percent. Those rules included lowering outdoor water use standards below the current statewide average by 2035. On Tuesday, regulators proposed delaying that timeline by five years, until 2040. The State Water Resources Control Board is scheduled to vote on the rules later th airmax is year.The state would not punish people for using too much water on their lawns. Instead, it could punish the water agency that supplied those homes. There are about 405 of these agencies throughout the state that provide water to nearly 95 percent of Californians.To comply with the rules, these agencies must convince their customers to use less water. Their options include public education campaigns and incentives, such as paying to install more efficient fixtures and replacing grass lawns with more sustaina stanley cup ble plants. They could also raise rates.READ MORE: D stanley cup rought-prone California approves new rules for turning wastewater directly into drinking waterState officials estimated it would cost water agencies about $13.5 billion to comply with these rules 鈥?an estimate Chelsea H