Explainer-What US Congress is fighting over as shutdown approaches

By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With the U.S. government due to run out of funding at midnight on Saturday, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and the Democratic-controlled Senate are at odds over priorities they would like to include in legislation that would keep the government running in the new fiscal year that starts Oct. 1. Here are some of the issues they are fighting over: SPENDING House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a Republican, and Democratic President Joe Biden agreed in May to set overall agency spending at $1.59 trillion for the new fiscal yea...