US Republicans craft new deal to avert looming government shutdown

By Bo Erickson, Richard Cowan, Andy Sullivan and Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republicans in the U.S. Congress said they had reached a new spending package that would avert a looming government shutdown and teed up a quick vote, as President-elect Donald Trump praised the deal after scuttling a prior bipartisan version. "There's an agreement," Republican Representative Tom Cole, who