Posted on 12/17/2024 8:55:13 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Congress staggered toward a fast-approaching government funding cliff on Tuesday, as leading lawmakers zeroed in on a bipartisan funding compromise but struggled to cinch a final deal.
Without new legislation, government agencies will shutter at 12:01 a.m. Saturday. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) was widely expected to introduce a continuing resolution, or CR, over the weekend to punt that deadline into mid-March.
Instead, disputes over aid for farmers and funding for Baltimore’s collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge appeared to cloud discussions over the weekend, lawmakers said. Those projects threatened to turn what was supposed to be a routine federal funding extension into a dreaded end-of-year “Christmas tree,” decorated with lawmakers’ pet projects.
“The CR looks a lot like something my late beagle used to hide under my back porch. I think it’s a mess,” Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R-Louisiana) said Monday evening. The legislation would push off the government shutdown deadline by three months and include up to $100 billion of assistance for natural disaster survivors and a year-long extension of the major agricultural policy and anti-poverty law known as the farm bill.
But during last-minute negotiations, the speaker attempted to tack on $10 billion in additional financial assistance for farmers, according to two people familiar with the talks who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations. Republicans for agriculture-heavy states now insist the bill carry that language; some have signaled they may withhold their support without it.
“Every day, farmers are being turned down for credit. Now is when they get their credit to plant a crop or a raise or a herd. If they don’t get credit, that farm or ranch goes away. It’s a time-sensitive issue,” said Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-Pennsylvania), chairman of the House Agriculture Committee.
Regardless, Johnson will have to rely on...
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If they don’t shut it down past Jan.20, the ramifications of Pardons, Reparations (disguised as ethnic and Illegal Alien handouts) will continue. It also can delay the border wall scrap steel giveaways, and funding the Ukraine money-laundering scheme.
Print more money ?
SOS (Same Old $#it) at the end of each session. Hold off on every thing until the final few days then lump it all in one bill so it has to be passed without debate so that all the shenanigans gets passed.
Every time we the people say Shut it Down, and every time the uniparty gives US the middle finger 🖕
How much shit will be piled in this Bill that stupid Repukes will vote for just to keep the government open? They do it all the time.
Here we go again. Someone needs to count how many times a CR has been passed in the place of an actual budget in the past decade or so. This is getting ridiculous.
The Congress folks really think they are being Statesmen” by making a deal to lower the projected deficit by a coupld of per cent when the whole budget should be canned and replaced by individual item voting.
You are no more "the people" than is anyone else.
The Left ialso is really fond of anointing themselves as "the people", and then using that to justify all sorts of wacky crap. One of the big lefty chants is "The people, united, can never be defeated", which they repeat endlessly in those ridiculous sing-song voices.
Everybody likes to consider themselves and like-thinkers "the People".
But neither Trump, nor Harris, nor any substantial number of those who won races for Congress ran on a platform of "I want to shut the government down right now.". If that is truly what a majority of "the people" really wanted, why didn't Trump run on that? Why didn't Harris?
So it can’t be shut down for a few weeks till Trump is in office.
And you implying we the people want it shut down forever is nutz:-)
btw nice chin,-)
Mike Johnson is unfit for the position of speakership IF MAGA principles are to succeed. freepersup
I would also note that the BLOB, which Mike Johnson and Kevin McCarthy fully funded, time and time again, did in fact subpoena the former and future President of the United States’ son, Eric Trump, (with emphasis) ONE HUNDRED and TWELVE TIMES.
My source: (is) Eric Trump’s MOUTH.
Nothing wrong with a CR.
34 times they passed a CR in the last decade instead of an actual budget.
I'm starting to wonder who he actually represents.
The "Power Of The Purse" is fictional.
These bastards are owned and controlled and are reduced to paid actors.
Why? What is the point?
Let's be realistic, which is something nobody was back when McCarthy was given the boot and people thought that meant we could pass individual appropriations bills. There is almost no chance we're going to pass a bunch of separate appropriations bills because there isn't going to be a clean majority on them. There wasn't when we had a 6 vote margin, and there sure won't be when the margin is down to 1-2.
That's not saying that we wouldn't be better off if we could pass them. Just that it isn't going to happen.
So that leads back to asking what we expect to accomplish by shutting down the government...which by the way would mean getting Trump's people through all the administrative stuff would take a lot longer.
wait to the last minute
change the conversation to govt shutdown
get full funding on everything they want
such a tattered playbook
and yet it still works
Can’t find a dime to cut you scum?
Re: 12 - Except that Speaker Johnson said upon assuming the Soesjwrsgip that the House would be returning to Regular Order.
Which they have not done.
And which they will not do even after President Trump is inaugurated.
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