Posted on 01/19/2018 5:22:42 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The House passed a bill to keep the government funded for another four weeks, but prospects in the Senate look dim.
Congress is careening toward the first shutdown in more than four years, with Republicans and Democrats at a seemingly intractable impasse over government funding and the fates of young immigrants facing deportation.
Though House Republicans voted Thursday night to keep the government open, the real drama is in the closely divided Senate, where it's unclear what, if anything, can clear the chamber's supermajority threshold. The Senate couldn't even agree on holding a vote on Thursday night, adjourning after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell spurned Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's request to hold a vote and, assuming it failed, restart bipartisan negotiations on immigration and government spending levels.
Senators said they expected a vote on Friday, but had little idea what would come next.
"These are hard issues, there's a lot of disagreement. Not just on substance but how to proceed to it. And everybody's trying to gain leverage," said Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.)., the No. 3 GOP leader.
The uncertainty came just hours after House Republicans put weeks of internal squabbling behind them and secured votes for a spending plan to keep the government open for another four weeks. The vote was 230-197, with 11 Republicans in opposition and six Democrats crossing the aisle to back it.
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Send the FISA abuse docs to Wiki before the shutdown so we have something to read while Congress sits on its ass.
Hilarious “Hurtles toward shutdown”.
Now it makes sense. I just saw a local Miami tv anchor use the SAME EXACT PHRASE!!!!
Yep, they all read from the same playbook.
What a joke. National, local, print, internet, radio, tv...all the same leftist slant.
Shut it down and do it NOW.
Yawn
Personally, I couldn’t give a flying f**k about a government “shutdown”! The media and the Washington elite have most Americans believing that they can’t survive without a big, bloated government bureaucracy to manage their lives.
Release the House memo on FISA abuses and domestic spying, and perp walk a few high-ranking officials out of their cushy homes and offices and the MSM won’t be able to ignore it any longer.
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