Posted on 06/16/2019 12:50:38 PM PDT by Hojczyk
with a new House Democratic majority with its own priorities leaves the sides much farther apart than they were at this point in last years budget process, which ended in a record-long government funding lapse. At the time, Republicans controlled both chambers of Congress, but negotiations stalled over funding Trumps immigration priorities.
Trump and Congress face a trio of difficult budget issues. Congress must pass, and Trump must sign, funding legislation by Oct. 1 to avoid a new shutdown. They need to raise the federal debt limit around the same time, according to the latest estimates. Failure to do so would force the government to make difficult decisions about which obligations to pay, and could be considered a default by investors, shaking markets and an economy already showing some signs of alarm.
And by years end, they also need to agree on how to lift austere budget caps that will otherwise snap into place and slash $125 billion from domestic and military programs.
House Democrats have gone their own way on spending bills without Republican buy-in, putting a massive $983 billion appropriations package for the Health and Human Services Department, the Pentagon and other agencies on the floor at spending levels Senate Republicans and the White House would never agree to. A bipartisan agreement in the Senate that helped Congress make unusual progress passing spending bills last year up until the dispute over the wall has not been resurrected this year, and the Senate Appropriations Committee has not yet passed a single spending bill.
And it all comes against the backdrop of an intensely partisan debate over impeachment and a looming presidential campaign, which Shelby called collateral issues that only compound the difficulty of reaching agreement.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I don’t see any way of negotiating with the House. “they’re not nuts they’re crazy”
Perhaps they will just live with an indefinite shutdown. Nothing Trump tries to do will be enough for these dems. The dems will blame the shutdown on Trump and think it will help them in 2020.
Remember, we started out as a one party system.
The House controls the purse strings and it’s in the democRats hands.
I guess it’s asking too much for the Washington Post to grasp such a nuanced point, such as this one.
“GOP in disarray as budget impasse threatens shutdown, deep cuts and default”
GOP? How about the Leftists instead? Do they ever take responsibility for anything?
Thank goodness the GOP reined in spending when they controlled both houses of Congress. Oh, wait ...
We so need the house back.
Yes, the GOP cut spending very aggressively when they had the House. NOT
Paul Ryan left us with this mess. Good thing hes not being rewarded with high paying private sector gigs. Oh, wait ...
It’s pretty damn hard to cut spending in a still growing country.
It's not "The Washington Post", it's Jeff Bezos.
Alinsky's Rules for Radicals:
RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)
Failure to do so would force the government to make difficult decisions about which obligations to pay
No, not which obligations to pay; which programs to cut.
It’s WAPO, so likely BS. But it does strike me that GOP and “disarray” have become largely synonymous.
Good point...
Thanks to all the absolute uninformed nitwits who voted for these DIMwit DIMs and their losing policies. Thanks a lot...
Wait.. This will be an election campaign year. Trump is the Republican candidate. There will be no serious challengers. The Democrats on the other hand have 2 dozen candidates running in the primaries. Each one with their own grandiose plans and programs which will require huge increases in taxes and deficit spending. The person with the biggest problem in this is Pelosi who has to corral all her candidates into some focused direction which seems unlikely to happen! Lots of huge egos! If the Republicans just stay united and strong for a sort period they can hammer the democrats on the budget!
Nonsense. When you include the word default, well you are just being silly.
Washington Post as a source...
That says it all unless you are a troll trying to drive clicks to this crap
Im smoking the fact that Pelosis caucus wont let her budge one inch, or one micron. She will he going with her bat arse crazy budget proposal and will have to stick with it. If she doesnt and compromises at all with the GOP (who you know will compromise), then she will be in the position of needing GOP votes in the House. If the GOP gave her 90% of what she wants it still wont be acceptable to her caucus.
And so the shutdown happens. Trump who has the bully pulpit can beat the drum that maybe, just maybe if the democrats cared more about doing their jobs than investigating him, trying to get his tax returns and pushing a phony Roosia Collusion conspiracy then maybe the government would not be shutdown.
And the democrats? This will just ramp up their impeachment calls.
So yes, Pelosi is in trouble.
and if FakeNewsMSM hadn’t pushed RussiaRussiaRussia for 2 years, and the Mueller investigation had ended before it began, or at least once Mueller knew there was no Trump campaign collusion with Russia (which was also before his fake investigation began), the House would not have been taken by the Dems, and this story would not be written today.
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