Another “Government Shutdown” Fight Coming? (Sep. 2023)

[Axtremus]

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/09/30/congress/stopgap-passes-00119280

the House on Saturday took an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote to avert a shutdown at midnight on Sunday — with the majority of Democrats bailing out the GOP.
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McCarthy shocked his party — and most on the Hill — by deciding to put a "clean" bill on the floor that could be enough to doom his speakership. The short-term funding patch that passed includes none of the GOP’s spending cuts or border policies. The only addition: $16 billion for [flood] disaster aid sought by the White House.

[jon-nyc]

[Axtremus]

@jon-nyc said in Another “Government Shutdown” Fight Coming? (Sep. 2023):

@George-K said in Another “Government Shutdown” Fight Coming? (Sep. 2023):

This true?

I hope so. I’d rather bureaucrats sit on their hands for a while than Russia rebuild its empire.

The House passed spending bill has no money for Ukraine.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/09/30/ukraine-aid-government-shutdown/

The GOP's support for Russia, in this case to snuff out a democracy, is inexplicable.

[Jolly]

@Axtremus said in Another “Government Shutdown” Fight Coming? (Sep. 2023):

@jon-nyc said in Another “Government Shutdown” Fight Coming? (Sep. 2023):

@George-K said in Another “Government Shutdown” Fight Coming? (Sep. 2023):

This true?

I hope so. I’d rather bureaucrats sit on their hands for a while than Russia rebuild its empire.

The House passed spending bill has no money for Ukraine.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/09/30/ukraine-aid-government-shutdown/

The GOP's support for Russia, in this case to snuff out a democracy, is inexplicable.

Sharper than a Mexican rowel, not.

[George K]

@Jolly said in Another “Government Shutdown” Fight Coming? (Sep. 2023):

rowel

Now there's a word I haven't heard in about 15 years.

[Axtremus]

The vote count:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-congress-tees-up-votes-last-minute-scramble-avert-shutdown-2023-09-30/

Overall: 391 for, 91 against
Among those voted to pass the 45-day funding bill, 209 are Democrats, 126 are Republicans.

[Axtremus]

The Senate passed the bill, and Biden signed it:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/30/politics/us-government-shutdown-latest/index.html

Looks like there will be no government shutdown.

Let's see if the House GOP will try to remove McCarthy from Speakership comes Monday. Anyone wants to start a pool on this?

[Jolly]

Now, you can sleep peacefully, knowing once again the Republic is safe.

[Axtremus]

The Republic is indeed safer with an operating federal government than without. Let's see how Congress do with a separate Ukraine funding bill that's supposed to make up for its omission from the Sep.30 government funding bill. If that goes well and quickly, I will sleep even better knowing that the world is safer too.

[Axtremus]

@Axtremus said in Another “Government Shutdown” Fight Coming? (Sep. 2023):

Let's see if the House GOP will try to remove McCarthy from Speakership comes Monday. Anyone wants to start a pool on this?

Looks like the House GOP will indeed file a motion to vacate McCarthy:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/oct/1/matt-gaetz-says-he-will-seek-to-oust-kevin-mccarth/

[Axtremus]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/15/politics/senate-vote-avert-shutdown/index.html

The Nov. 17 shutdown has been averted. The can has been kicked down to Jan. 19.

No aid funding for Ukraine or Israel in the meantime.

The continuing drama:

But the short-term funding plan sparked backlash from House conservatives who were upset that it did not include deep spending cuts that they have demanded. As a result, the bill required Democratic support to pass the House.
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In the end, more House Democrats supported the measure than Republicans – a warning sign for [House Speaker] Johnson.

[taiwan_girl]

Easy to campaign. Difficult to govern. I think that Rep. Johnson is finding this out.