Lawmakers say government shutdown appears inevitable
Lawmakers say government shutdown appears inevitable
A government shutdown increasingly looks inevitable as GOP opponents of a stopgap in the Senate seek to drag out the process ahead of a midnight Sunday deadline. Opponents of the Senate stop…
A government shutdown increasingly looks inevitable as GOP opponents of a stopgap in the Senate seek to drag out the process ahead of a midnight Sunday deadline.
Opponents of the Senate stopgap, which is backed by leaders in both parties, are delaying a vote to give the House a chance to pass its own continuing resolution to fund government.
Senate conservatives want to give Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) more leverage to negotiate spending cuts and changes to immigration policy, leverage that would diminish if the Senate jams the House by moving first and passing a relatively clean stopgap.
It’s unclear if House Republicans will be able to rally around their own funding measure or if McCarthy would put the Senate bill up for a vote in the House once it passes the upper chamber.
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Good. None of them are helping anyone they're representing and we're likely better off without them.
I for one appreciate having a food and drug association, environmental protection agency, and occupational health and safety administration. Partly because I’ve read about what it was like without them.
These agencies have definitely made their fair share of mistakes/coverups and have had plenty of corrupt staff, but the overall quality of our health, food, air, and water would be significantly worse without them. I hate cliches, but we can’t let perfect be the enemy of good. For the most part, the scientists and bureaucrats that work at these agencies do their best with the extremely limited resources we give them. Their best is not perfect, but it is SO much better than nothing.
Are you 12?
They're going to furlough about a million federal workers, rejoin after a couple of days or weeks, the GDP will drop another 0.2%, and that's that.
We’re also potentially going to lose financial credit. One of our strengths as a nation was at one point that we were always good for the money we borrowed. Shutdowns compromise that and with it our dominance as a currency and trading partner.
Most of those employees vote Republican so they can all suck my dick and my balls. Starve or get a real job, bitch. No handouts for Republicans!
Most federal employees have realer jobs than you.
Parts of the government that will shut down include popular DOI departments that a lot of people appreciate: FDA, national park service, EPA, United States geological survey, etc etc
You know, government researchers and ecologists. People that overwhelmingly do not vote republican.
These shut downs hurt civil servants that are the actual machinery that makes the government work, while congress has their collective feet in their collective asses a lot of the time.
It’s deeply wasteful. Federal employees get backpaid for shutdown time. The government still has to meet contractual obligations. Work is left unfinished.
Might feel like schadenfreude, but you’re totally off base of you think the government employs primarily republican voters. The US government is larger than the DoD (by the way, the military will still be paid through the shutdown most likely).
(by the way, the military will still be paid through the shutdown most likely).
They weren’t during the last one. What’s different this time?
Ah, I am probably wrong. My husband was in the military during a shutdown, and I remember he was paid, but now I remember it was our credit union that covered his paychecks.
I remember it not being a problem, pay-check wise, for other people. We all probably banked through the same credit union, though (navy federal).