Hardline shutdown push of the few frustrates US House Republicans

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell R-KY, speaks to the media at the U.S. Capitol after a tentative deal is set to avert a second partial government shutdown in Washington, U.S., February 12, 2019. REUTERS/Mary F. Calvert/ File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights
WASHINGTON, Sept 28 (Reuters) – A small group of hardline Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have set the federal government on a course towards its fourth partial shutdown in a decade, angering some members of their own caucus.
At least nine members of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s narrow 221-212 majority are refusing to back any stopgap measure to keep the government funded past midnight Saturday — and threatening to try to oust him from leadership if he relies on Democratic votes to work around them.
That stands in sharp contrast to the Senate, where a bill to fund the government through Nov. 17 sailed over a first procedural hurdle this week in a bipartisan 77-19 vote.