Popular bills and resolutions often have a rider that is unacceptable for any reason. Democrats are famous for this. This is one reason why you find a bridge to nowhere or five hundred thousand dollars to study transsexual spiders getting approved. For every good bill or project there are a dozen stinkers hiding someplace in the small print.
That’s what I’m thinking but can’t find confirmation.
From what I can gather, this was a simple straight-forward resolution. Turtle wants to restore all funding for the gov’t before he votes on this individual item.
I could be wrong. Won’t be the first time. I was once wrong back in ‘92.
Logic tells me that you are probably correct.
The cynic in me tells me that he killed it so the dims would have another anchor around their neck.
However all of this is symbolic and hysteria for the present.
Checks are not written on Sunday. I suspect that they are not written until the last day of the month.
So no one, military or not, has gone without his paycheck as of yet.
Same for any invoice written to the government. All invoices have a due date. Some are due upon receipt, but how many do you think are sent to the government of the US with a due upon receipt due date?
It does not hit the fan until the end of the month.