The House still had to agree with all of the above so they are responsible as all appropration bills must come from the House!
SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT AND FIRE 90% OF ALL FEDERAL WORKERS ALONG WITH ELIMINATING THE OUTFITS THEY COLLECT WHITE COLLAR WELFARE FROM!!!!!!!!!!
I think people who call for the govt to be “shut down” and “90% of all federal workers to be fired” are blowing angry smoke, and not willing to recognize how that would affect their own lives, not just their neighbors, communities, and our national security
How about no air flights for lack of safety checks and air traffic control systems? How about no pay for the military or for employees of VA hospitals?
How about no mortgages due to lack of govt funding, no loans for education?
How about no social security checks for your parents or elderly neighbors? How about slow or no food or fuel deliveries due to lack of industry inspectors,no payments to farmers, and transportation safety inspectors?
How about no oversight over our own national nuclear assets, both those used for energy and for weapons?
How about even less drugs and medical equipment due to no inspection and oversight of production, or no approvals for new research and production lines shutdown due to no govt orders of mass batches for public safety?
How about no payment to doctors labs and hospitals for treating MEDICARE MEDICAID VA and other govt insured patients?
No payments to the states either, for all the programs run on federal grants. Prepared to write a big check for state and property tax increases
How about a default by our govt on repaying debt, and the reaction by China and other debt holders
How about the international financial downgrade of US govt debt to high risk junk debt? Prepared to pay for the higher interest rate needed to sell and pay our debt?
You may not like the extensive entanglement of the federal govt into our everyday lives - most of us on FR do NOT - but a preemptory shutdown and social breakdown is NOT the way to dismantle it and just sounds petulant.