Bring it on. The midterm election is over. November 2020 is long, long way away. I don’t see a downside to a shutdown at this point.
“I don’t see a downside to a shutdown at this point.”
It would be a very limited shutdown. While there are several federal agencies whose funding may expire after 7 December 2018 and who may be subject to furlough, the DoD is not among them.
In all past shutdowns, the most consecutive days were 16. The period in 95-96 was 27 days, but it wasn’t consecutive.
In this case, Trump isn’t kidding when he might suggest a longer period. He won’t have a problem in going six weeks. I can tell you from the 3.5 years I lived in the DC area and worked around federal employees....approximately 20-percent of the locals there on fed work are not capable of going past 30 days of no pay. A lot of these folks are taking every single penny of their fed-pay and paying on hefty mortgages and two car payments, with college debt tanking out their income. If you went two months...there’s probably 2,000 fed-workers with no ability to cover mortgages and they’d be getting warning letters on failing payments.
The problem for CNN and the anti-Trump media, this would consume the whole message and the legal proceedings that they want to start upon....would be stalled. You could be looking at four months of a shutdown....maybe longer. I don’t think Nancy or Chuckie can go back to their voters and say they agreed to the Wall....so six months of a shutdown is fairly possible.