Congress is back in session on Tuesday with a lot on the lawmakers’ plates. Government funding is set to expire on Sept. 30 under a stopgap spending bill approved by Congress in March. Both chambers will need to pass—and President Donald Trump to sign—a total of 12 funding bills to avert a complete or partial government shutdown. So far, the Senate has passed an initial draft of three of these, while the House has passed just two. Only one, a bill to fund military construction, has passed both chambers.
Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping will host a military parade on Wednesday. More than 20 leaders, including Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, will gather in Beijing for the parade. Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico and Serbia’s Aleksandar Vucic are the only Western leaders attending….