Republicans move to avoid government shutdown

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U.S. President Barack Obama participates in his first cabinet meeting of his second term in the Cabinet Room of the White House in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) – Congressional Republicans announced a plan on Monday to avoid a government shutdown later this month, seeking to calm the waters after months of budget fights that ended in a failure last week to halt damaging spending cuts. Just three days into the $85 billion of automatic "sequester" cuts, Republicans in the House of Representatives turned their attention to the next fiscal deadline: the March 27 expiration of funding for government agencies and programs. …

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