The “government” is not shut.
A part of the government, about one-fourth, is not funded. Because of the payroll cycle, the people working in those sectors are getting paid, though there may be a delay in payment for non-essential workers for future work until a new funding bill is passed.
Unable to come to a consensus on a funding resolution, the federal government is headed towards a partial shutdown at midnight.
Not to worry though, the Senate passed a bill that would ensure federal employees get paid in the event of a shutdown:
Yes, the government is facing another shutdown if Congress does not pass a spending bill to fund the government through the end of September by midnight on Friday.
It may not be that easy since some Republicans have scoffed at the $1.2 trillion price tag.
Immigration has come to the forefront again as the government faces another possible shutdown this week. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) has already stated she will vote no against a funding bill if it does not include language for DACA members, also known as Dreamers.
Another option, though, is temporary protection after President...
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) needs to snap back into reality. Look, the Democrats do not have control of Congress and Donald Trump is our president and it looks like Schumer still isn’t ready to accept the fact that he doesn’t have power. Even after he
The Democrats have a huge problem on their hands as Dreamers, now young adults who’ve been promised the immigration world, are demanding Democrats make good on their promises.
Schumer’s failure to negotiate any meaningful DACA codification into the spending bill has Dreamers incensed and they’re taking action.
Senate Minority Leader Schumer managed to single-handedly tick off the entire Democrat, progressive, and liberal political world with his inability to bring home any bacon from the shutdown fiasco.
There have been many times when I thought the Senate was getting too big for its britches, often forgetting that they are the second chamber and not the end all, be all of everything in the government. Basic civics teaches us that everything starts in the House of Representatives.
The Senate has...
Glad I was in the car much of the day, while all the theatrics were going on with unshutting down the government, which never really had been shut to begin with.
The overwhelming after-assessment among the punditry is that Schumer was humiliated, had little to show for either the fight or the...
Today is an embarrassing day to be a Democrat.
Senate Democrats wasted an entire grandstanding-filled weekend for a whole lotta nuthin. Rather than coming to an agreement with Senate Republicans and President Trump Friday, Democrats ended up accepting the deal (with nothing new in return) Monday.
As this post goes live, there are lots of rumors of some sort of “deal” between Democrat and Republican “moderates” to end the government funding impasse.
The Democrats, and particularly Chuck Schumer, have talked themselves into a dead end of seeming to put the interests of illegal aliens ahead of U.S. citizens....
We are now in Day 2 of the government shutdown, and things are not moving favorably for the Democrats, and they know it.
One sign may be that some leading Democrats are talking about capitulating on funding a wall on the Mexican border.
The Wall is symbolic in many ways.
We just witnessed another partisan battle over funding the government which ended in a shutdown. Has it impacted your life in any significant way?
Things sure have changed.
UPDATE: A cloture vote to end debate in the Senate on the funding bill passed by the House failed. So we’re heading to “shutdown” unless there is a last minute deal reached.
As a reminder of how Obama weaponized the 2013 shutdown, see my post Flashback to when Obama weaponized 2013 government shutdown.
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It’s unclear at this point whether there will be a short-term budget deal, or a government “shutdown.” Despite the drama, a shutdown is not really a shut down. Essential services continue.
It’s more of a scale-back, and the government has a lot of discretion as to what gets scaled back. In a...
The House of Representatives just approved a short term continuing spending bill to keep the government fully funded until mid-February.
The vote was 230-197. 11 Republicans voted no. 5 Democrats voted yes
It now moves on to the Senate, where Democrats say they have the votes to stop the funding, and at...
Every year, Congress faces the same budgetary deadline and every year, drama surrounding said deadline engulfs the news cycle. You’d think at some point they’d plan ahead and sort this business out well in advance of the deadline, but it’s much harder to lambast your opponent and score political points...
