Washington, Jan. 5 -- US lawmakers returned to Washington this week, as an end-of-the-month-deadline loomed fresh on the horizon, in order to avert another federal government shutdown.
The development comes as another funding fight seems imminent, amid infighting between Republican lawmakers over rising health care costs, and mounting frustration with the Justice Department's handling of the rollout of the Epstein files, with the recent tensions with Venezuela further adding to the opposition's woes.
Funding the government has moved to the top of Congress's agenda after a bruising 43-day shutdown from October through mid-November, the longest in US history.
To reopen agencies, lawmakers approved stopgap legislation that funded some parts...