US Congress avoids government shutdown in last-minute deal
US Congress avoids government shutdown in last-minute deal
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US Congress avoids government shutdown in last-minute deal
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Thank fuck. My wife and I have two mortgages currently because I'm transitioning out of the military and these fuckwits were going to cause us problems.
Glad they can do the bare minimum of their jobs.
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I'm glad for all the federal workers and military who'll get paid on time. I know that in a shutdown, they'll eventually get paid what they missed, but most people can't go much more than a single missed paycheck (if they can even do that).
But they're just kicking the can down the road until November. I guess it's good that they'll all have more time to negotiate ("negotiate"), but it's not like these people like Gaetz and his cronies aren't doing to pull this again.
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Considering that this is the window for fuel assistance starting, I'm quite glad to have it kicked down the road if they still need time to get something solid.
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🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: ::: spoiler Click here to see the summary But in a dramatic turnaround on Saturday afternoon, House Republicans scrambled to pass a temporary funding measure that would keep the government open for 45 more days and make no major concessions on spending levels.
However, with a majority of lawmakers keen to avert a shutdown, one of the faction's key demands - no more US funding for Ukraine's defence against its invasion by Russia - is reflected in the bill.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy had been extremely reluctant to rely on Democratic votes to pass the House's bill until the last minute, given this would anger these hard-line conservative members of his party.
They - and Republicans who also support more Ukraine money - will keep pressing for more funding, but officials in President Joe Biden's administration have warned that, in the short term, there could be disruption to the Ukrainian war effort.
As House Democrats complained that they were unable to read Republicans' latest offer before voting on it, one - Jamaal Bowman of New York - appeared to have pulled a fire alarm in one building to buy more time.
His counterpart, Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, argued his party had bailed out Republicans following "a complete and total surrender to right-wing extremists who throughout the year have tried to hijack the Congress".
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These stunts should be ignored by the media now. Stop giving the clowns the attention they seek. It is every single bloody time. I'm not even American and still I'm sick of hearing about the idiocy of this small group of extremists.