Posted on 01/10/2023 11:12:44 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The senior Democrat on the powerful House Appropriations Committee is warning that government shutdowns are all but inevitable if the newly empowered Republicans insist on dropping federal funding back to 2022 levels, as some conservatives have demanded.
Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) emphasized that any spending bills will need the support of Democrats in both Congress and the White House, and vowed that they’d never back proposals that revert funding to last year’s levels.
“You cannot pass appropriations bills without them being both bipartisan and bicameral. The president will not sign,” she said during a press briefing in the Capitol on Tuesday. “So I think this notion that you can deal with 2022 levels — that appears to have been a part of this secret deal — you then may be looking at guaranteeing a shutdown.”
The “secret deal” was a reference to the concessions made by Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to his conservative detractors in order to win their support for his speakership bid — a process that handed him the gavel in the early hours of Saturday morning on the 15th ballot.
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And the people said Amen.
Fine by me, I’d prefer a government shutdown to their outrageous spending bill any day.
Shut
It
Down
In case anyone still wondered why they were in such a damned hurry to shovel your money into the pit before the new Congress, but just through September ...
... cut now, ring the ‘shutdown’ bell. Cut later, ‘shutdown’ alarm. It’s worked for them every time since 1994 and Newt; quashes any attempt to stop running the economy into the ground with unpayable debt.
This is bad?
AAAAAARGH.
Fedzilla NEVER shuts down.
The vast majority of it gets deemed essential and rolls merrily along over the American public.
If only we could.
Shutting down the government means that only 87% of Federal employees continue on the job. BFD...
Great, that’s EXACTLY what needs to happen. It WILL HAPPEN one day under the FORCE of real life circumstances.
Well, there is THAT.
Closing the pull outs on the road to Mt. Rushmore is not a very effective drag on the Feds.
What’s the downside?
Here come the scare tactics. And the dutiful mockingbird media will gin up grandma eating dog food so she can afford her medication. Countless other drama stories about the heartless GOP hating women and minorities and it will all be for naught because as long as Mitch McConnell has any input, Democrats will get whatever they want.
This is all such political theater. Half the budget is entitlements. Without entitlement reform, we would need massive cuts in defense to return the budget to 2022. The Republicans don’t have the guts to propose entitlement reform. In fact, the story of the Republican Party from the Bush era through the Trump era has been avoiding fights on entitlements and spending as a political “third rail.” So pledges to return spending to 2022 are just plain silly. And DeLauro’s threat is just political theater in response.
Over & Over again
I remember when Obama shut down ALL the Federal Parks, etc.
So be it.
Most Americans wouldn’t realize the federal government was shut down until Social Security retirement age.
About 95% of Republican voters wouldn’t realize the federal government was shut down until Social Security retirement age.
I would love for someone in congress to tell the bog witch that she shouldn’t threaten them with a good time.
Think about what 2022 funding levels as a nonstarter means: the government spending at the highest rates in history, when we were at peak “raid the treasury” levels (until the last raid on the treasury) is too big of a cut for the dems.
We’re not at war (at least not our troops openly anyway), we are past covid, Biden claims we aren’t in a recession and the economy is doing great. Congress should cut spending across the board and reduce the size and cost of government at least to 1999 levels, or to put it more politely, back to the last time Rosa DeLauro looked fully human. Wouldn’t that be wild?
Apparently she’s unfamiliar with the history of the Party of Capitulation.
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