JoshuaHolland, to random
@JoshuaHolland@mastodon.social avatar

So sick of seeing reports that Kevin McCarthy has run out of options as "congress" hurtles toward a shutdown. He could put the Senate's bipartisan CR on the floor today, pass it--and keep his job--with Democratic votes and effectively neuter his Crazy Caucus. Dems care about governing and not harming millions of people.

It would invite tons of blowback, but he has a security detail. #governmentshutdown

GuyNamedBrian, to history
@GuyNamedBrian@mastodon.social avatar

The Speaker of the US House of Representatives is a coward: “At any point, McCarthy could bring up before the House the bipartisan measure already passed by the Senate. Democrats would then likely make up the votes he would lose in his own conference. But the extremists would then challenge his speakership, and that is apparently a challenge he is unwilling to brave.”

#History #Politics #GovernmentShutdown #PoliticalTerrorism #ImpeachmentHearings #Election2024

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-29-2023

absolutspacegrl, to random
@absolutspacegrl@mastodon.social avatar

Apparently some Reps are saying their staff are “essential” so that they can keep working on the “impeachment” during the Government Shutdown that they caused.

#governmentshutdown

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/26/politics/impeachment-inquiry-shutdown/index.html

smeg, to random
@smeg@assortedflotsam.com avatar

Republicans can't govern. They always fail to do the job of keeping government functional.

Republicans reject own funding bill, US government shutdown imminent | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/hardline-republican-holdouts-push-us-government-closer-shutdown-2023-09-29/ #governmentshutdown #shutdown

lisagetspolitik, to random

Dear House Republicans:

We know what you are doing. You are staging a fake shutdown to blow up the economy,

You are gambling that by next year, the American people will have forget that it was YOU REPUBLICANS who staged this fake fight, but blame Biden.

But the said reality is you are ALIENATING YOUR OWN SUPPORTERS. They will not vote for you.

And the rest of us? We will REMEMBER WHO TO BLAME. AND WE WILL VOTE. YOU. OUT. #Shutdown #GovernmentShutdown

Sincerely,

The American people

[News] Republicans reject own funding bill, US government shutdown imminent (www.reuters.com)

WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Hardline Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday rejected a bill proposed by their leader to temporarily fund the government, making it all but certain that federal agencies will partially shut down beginning on Sunday....

petergleick, to random

A reminder to all journalists: most in the GOP don't MIND a government shut down because a core of their philosophy is disemboweling government and then complaining how government doesn't work. The impacts to people, the economy, and the environment don't matter to them.

BruceMirken,
@BruceMirken@mas.to avatar

@petergleick They likely see a #GovernmentShutdown as a feature, not a bug. They're arsonists.

KidsData, to DadBin

🛑 🏛️ In the event of a government shutdown, it's not just federal employees & contractors who face upheaval. WIC, the USDA program that provides health care services and food to millions of low-income women and their children, will end immediately, Deena Zaru Pettiford reports in ABC News.

Read the story here: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/millions-women-children-risk-losing-wics-nutrition-assistance/story?id=103473348

#Children #Mothers #Poverty #Nutrition #WIC #Federal #FederalGovernment #Shutdown #GovernmentShutdown #PublicPolicy #PublicHealth

georgetakei, to random

Kevin McCarthy actually said this: “If we have to play into overtime to curb spending and secure the border, I’m prepared to do it.” Let’s get one thing straight. There is NO OVERTIME. Overtime means you shut the government down and don’t pay federal workers, including military personnel, for their service and time. What a joke. What a loser.

AnonymooseGuy,

@georgetakei
Everyone, and I mean everyone, who is not getting a paycheck should not go to work.

#EssentialWorkers died for us during #COVID19. The #WorkingClass is essential. Air traffic controllers are NOT slaves. Neither are SSA workers, park rangers, FDA inspectors, ...

If you're not getting paid what are you working for? Let the billionaires take responsibility for a change.

#GeneralStrike #WeThePeople #Solidarity #GovernmentShutdown

marynelson8, to USpolitics
@marynelson8@mstdn.social avatar

If these Republican house members who are holding the government hostage b/c they're angry about "border security" had an ounce of reflection, they would

  • work with other members to reform immigration law
  • fund greater border control measures, including an influx of judges and other staff to manage these surges

As voters, we need to ask whether they ever actually wanted to work to solve the country's problems.

#GovernmentShutdown #Republicans #USpol #USpolitics

RememberUsAlways, to random
@RememberUsAlways@newsie.social avatar

The upside to #governmentshutdown this time?

The economic data is negotiable based on length of time in debt servicing purgatory.

#data
#gap
#correction vs #autocorrection

RememberUsAlways, to geopolitics
@RememberUsAlways@newsie.social avatar

An ode to #governmentshutdown

"A fool and his money shall be parted."

#fool
#republican
#economy
#cnbc

A foole & his money,
be soone at debate:
which after with sorow,
repents him to late.

Five Hundreth Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1573) by Thomas Tusser

Nonilex, to DaftPunk
@Nonilex@masto.ai avatar

Hardliners to replace w/ one of his deputies as looms

A contingent of are an attempt to remove as speaker as early as next week, a move that would throw the into further in the middle of a potential .

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/28/kevin-mccarthy-tom-emmer-government-shutdown-motion-vacate/

MaRY1Fem, to USpolitics
TheConversationUS, to USpolitics
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SueInRockville, to random
@SueInRockville@mstdn.social avatar

I 💙 my MOC @repraskin who always tells the truth
Please do not allow anyone to say #GovernmentShutdown
It is 100% a #GOPShutdown caused by infighting between GOP & #MAGARepublicans with an impotent feckless coward @SpeakerMcCarthy
too afraid to bring #GOPTraitors into line
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1707401206530801675

NewsDesk, to USpolitics
@NewsDesk@flipboard.social avatar

A government shutdown is nearing this weekend. What does it mean, who’s hit and what’s next?

AP has an explainer: https://flip.it/SNc2Em

raccoon, to random

Well, looks like are gonna do another .

Reminder that this only ever happens when they control the house, and they even did it under Trump. It's a result of partisanship in an environment where a chunk of one party wants to overthrow democracy / rule of law: even as a small minority within the house, they have this amplified power because the party has to either surrender to them or give in and work across the aisle.

Nonilex, to random
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#KevinMcCarthy’s new #shutdown strategy: #ShiftTheBlame

Facing a potential #GovernmentShutdown in 4 days triggered by #HouseRepublicans’ inability to unite to pass spending bills, House “Speaker” Kevin #McCarthy is trying to shift the blame.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/27/mccarthys-new-shutdown-strategy-shifting-blame/

Nonilex,
@Nonilex@masto.ai avatar

Asked by Lisa Desjardins of PBSNewsHour whether there will be a #GovernmentShutdown, #McCarthy responded, “I don’t know. Ask President Biden.”
Of course, #Biden has played no role in bringing #Congress to the brink of a #shutdown.

In fact, McCarthy has sidelined #Democrats & refused to take up a bipartisan stopgap funding bill because he’s afraid #FarRight #Republicans will try to oust him from the speakership.

DemLabs, to random
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Nonilex, to DaftPunk
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Nonilex,
@Nonilex@masto.ai avatar

Just now:

Surrounded by a gaggle of reporters, #KevinMcCarthy has no defense for #HouseRepublicans failure to function at the most basic level. He literally just repeated over & over “but the border” & hypothetical allegories about “the border”

#GovernmentShutdown #shutdown #Republicans #GOP #Congress #dysfunction #PublicDisservice

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