Rep. Jasmine Crockett said Tuesday she believes the federal government is headed for another shutdown in January, warning that Congress is unlikely to pass any of the required appropriations bills before the current funding deadline expires.

“I see the government shutting down,” Crockett said during her livestream, Crockett’s Quarterly Update, on Facebook. She told viewers that looming budget chaos would likely keep her in Washington longer than planned. “One of the reasons that I am going to be a little bit more absent than I would like to be in my district, especially in January, is because we are going to have to stay in D.C. and if the government shuts down, I won’t be able to get out,” she said.

Crockett, who earlier this month announced a campaign to challenge Sen. John Cornyn for his seat, said she does not see the shutdown threat as a partisan inevitability so much as a failure of basic governance.

“There is just one group of people that [couldn’t] care less about doing what they’re supposed to do, which is to govern,” she said, directing her criticism at Republicans.

Congress reopened the government this fall after a shutdown that began Oct. 1 and stretched 43 days, becoming the longest shutdown in U.S. history. At the time, lawmakers faced the task of passing 12 appropriations bills to fund the government through the fiscal year. None have been approved since.

Instead, Congress relied on a continuing resolution, a temporary spending measure that keeps the government operating only until Jan. 30. Crockett said the lack of progress since then makes another shutdown all but inevitable.

“We went out basically [on] Oct. 1 and after we went out, we couldn’t get anything done,” she said. “It’s now technically two months later, still nothing’s been done. So I don’t see how we are going to get to the point that we end up in a space in which the government does not shut down.”

Democrats in the Senate may use the threat of another shutdown as leverage, particularly on health care. During the recent shutdown fight, Democrats pushed Republicans to negotiate on extending expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies. Eight Democratic senators ultimately agreed to reopen the government without conditions, leaving the subsidies unresolved.

As a result, monthly insurance payments are now projected to spike for millions of Americans, a development Democrats believe could pressure Republicans into concessions on federal health care spending.

A shutdown fight could also reopen broader confrontations with the White House. Democrats have bristled at several recent moves by President Donald Trump, including his public threat to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.

Trump, meanwhile, has tried to shift blame preemptively. Speaking at a rally in North Carolina last week, he claimed Democrats would be responsible if the government closes again.

“The problem is that Democrats will shut down the government because they are beholden … to the insurance companies,” Trump said. “So I don’t know what they can do about it, but they’ll probably close down the government. It’s so simple.”

With no appropriations bills passed and the January deadline fast approaching, Crockett’s warning lands in a familiar place: a Capitol bracing for another shutdown, and a governing system once again testing how long it can run on fumes.