Trying to get all of the website access that I need before the government shuts down so that I can continue to work on my essential project of certifying spacecraft to carry humans after the government shuts down. 🤦♀️
As #GovernmentShutdown looms just days away, no agreement is in sight #HouseRepublicans have turned their efforts to long-term funding, while the #Senate will start moving forward on a short-term solution #Congress returns to #DC on Tues w/ <5 days to find an agreement that will avert a govt #shutdown.
That agreement so far does not exist.
Sept 21 (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump has urged fellow Republicans in Congress to shut down the government to thwart the federal prosecutions against him, although any funding lapse was unlikely to stop the cases from being pursued....
Politico Playbook this morning: “We spoke to multiple Democratic members and aides last night, and this much they know: There will be a (US government) shutdown. Yesterday’s floor meltdown confirmed to them that the only remaining question is how long it will be.”
The prospect of a #GovernmentShutdown escalated significantly Tues as #HouseRepublicans’ intraparty tensions again came to a head in a dramatic floor vote amid negotiations on a nascent plan to keep the government open.
#HouseRepublicans’ inability to find agreement on even a #stopgap#funding bill that is destined to fail in the #Senate again puts into focus the challenge before #KevinMcCarthy as he tries to unite his party & avoid a #GovernmentShutdown. Though #Republicans largely agree on the need to significantly curb federal spending, divisions mostly over process have given any 5 lawmakers enormous #power in the razor-thin majority.
(Bloomberg) - House Speaker Kevin McCarthy proposed a deal to temporarily avert a US government shutdown, with demands including an 8% spending cut for domestic agencies and a resumption of border wall construction.
Every member of Congress should go without a paycheck whenever the government shuts down.
During a government shutdown, thousands of hard-working, government employees become temporarily unemployed during a shutdown without a working schedule or a paycheck.
It seems unfair, that the very people who cause these unnecessary and avoidable government shutdowns should continue to receive their full paychecks for failing to do their jobs!
I more than suspect, if members of Congress faced the real possibility of not earning their paychecks due to a government shutdown, they would perhaps work harder to avoid them as opposed to threatening to cause them.
The GOP just caused America to get our credit downgraded
They’re doing to blame Dems so let’s do the numbers:
R’s:
Nixon went from a $3.2B surplus to a $6.1B deficit
Reagan took the deficit from $70B to $175B
H.W. Bush took the deficit to $300B
Dubya took 0 deficit and turned it into $1.2T deficit
Trump grew the debt by $7.8T
D’s:
Clinton created a $128.2B surplus
Obama cut the deficit by 1/2
Biden cut the deficit by more than $1.7T far
[News] Trump urges government shutdown in unlikely bid to 'defund' his criminal prosecutions (www.reuters.com)
Sept 21 (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump has urged fellow Republicans in Congress to shut down the government to thwart the federal prosecutions against him, although any funding lapse was unlikely to stop the cases from being pursued....
McCarthy Demands 8% Spending Cut, Border Wall to Avert Shutdown (www.bloomberg.com)
(Bloomberg) - House Speaker Kevin McCarthy proposed a deal to temporarily avert a US government shutdown, with demands including an 8% spending cut for domestic agencies and a resumption of border wall construction.