Sen. Durbin predicts GOP stop-gap to pass, averting shutdown

The Hill reports:

Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the second-ranking Democrat in the Senate, predicted a House GOP proposal to cut spending by $6 billion over three weeks would pass the upper chamber.

“I think it will pass, in the House this week and later in the Senate,” Durbin said Sunday morning on CNN’s “State of the Union, dismissing the possibility of a government shutdown at the end of this week. “It buys us about three weeks and includes cuts which we've offered on the Democratic side in an effort to find a reasonable compromise here.

Are Republicans angling for a April 15 shutdown?