Congress returns to brutal lame-duck stretch with shutdown deadline, leadership races: 'Closet is full of s—'

Lawmakers are back on Capitol Hill this week for the first time since the midterm elections, and Republicans have a slew of responsibilities in front of them before Democrats take over the reins of power in January.

"The lame duck is like that closet in your house where everybody's throwing a bunch of s--- into it," Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, told Fox News Digital. "And the closet is full of s--- now, and now we got to figure out how to get it all out of there."

Current federal funding levels run out on Dec.