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What made the cut in Congress’s plan to avert a shutdown — and what didn’t
The Hill ^ | 09/22/24 6:22 PM ET | by Aris Folley -

Posted on 09/22/2024 9:16:18 PM PDT by RandFan

The deal, rolled out Sunday afternoon, would keep the government funded through Dec. 20 to buy time to hash out a funding agreement for the rest of fiscal 2025.

The roughly three-month timeline is the preferred duration of Democrats and Republican defense hawks.

It comes after a bill containing a six-month stopgap, the time frame sought by conservatives, failed on the House floor

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Secret Service

The bill includes $231 million in funding for the Secret Service in the wake of the apparent second assassination attempt against Trump.

The proposed funding for the Secret Service comes as the acting director, Ronald Rowe, has pushed for more resources for the agency.

SAVE Act

The bill unveiled Sunday excludes the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, despite Trump urging the party to fight to get the bill enacted this month, even if it means a shutdown.

Submarine funding

Funding for the Virginia Class Submarine program that was included in the earlier GOP-backed plan is absent from the new stopgap plan.

The previous plan sought to appropriate about $2 billion to the Defense Department for the “shipbuilding and conversion” for the program. Aides said Sunday the funding fell out, however, after a “joint conversation” between appropriators, defense officials and the Biden administration.

VA shortfall

The bill also fails to address what the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has warned is a potential $12 billion shortfall facing the agency for fiscal 2025, despite pressure from Democrats.

However, the 46-page bill features a number of health care extensions for the VA, including measures appropriators say would extend its authority to provide nursing care to veterans with “service-connected disabilities,” as well as the authority for the joint Department of Defense-Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Facility Demonstration Fund.

FEMA funding

The three-month stopgap excludes $10 billion in additional funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) disaster relief fund that was previously included in House Republicans’ initial six-month plan. But it does allow the agency to use the fund’s resources faster for disaster response for the roughly three-month span.

“We made a joint decision to address, because it’s going to be a two and a half month CR, the disaster side with no additional disaster money,” the aides said Sunday


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: congress; saveact; shutdown
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1 posted on 09/22/2024 9:16:18 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Repukes never negotiated any deal that didn’t benefit the RATS. They’re perpetual gutless wonders.


2 posted on 09/22/2024 9:31:28 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: RandFan

Would a shutdown help or hurt Trump going into November?


3 posted on 09/22/2024 9:41:34 PM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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To: RandFan

How much $$$ is this “deal” going to cost?


4 posted on 09/22/2024 9:50:18 PM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TV)
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To: RandFan
It's been decades since congress (also known as a gathering of baboons) has passed all appropriations bills on time (i.e. by September 30).

I predict with a good degree of certainty that the final omnibus bill won't be passed until at least March of next year six months into the fiscal year

5 posted on 09/22/2024 10:06:11 PM PDT by rllngrk33 (The soap box and ballot box have failed, it's really close to time for the bullet box.)
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To: RandFan

I’m a 100% disabled vet. The VA issue will affect a LOT of veterans like myself who depend on the VA.

Trump did so much for the VA during his term. The DemocRATs just don’t care about service people the way he does.

And the threat of shut-down only demonstrates that government spending is out of control. I’m not sure what can be done about that.


6 posted on 09/22/2024 10:17:24 PM PDT by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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To: RandFan

Jeez. The Virginia subs are one of those things that needs tax money the most. Argh


7 posted on 09/23/2024 3:44:01 AM PDT by Apinealgland 2
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“...FEMA funding...”

This is the agency that puppet Biden is using to pay for the millions of diseased, illiterate, unskilled, dangerous illegal aliens flooding the country.

It sure is a flood and a disaster. /spit


8 posted on 09/23/2024 3:49:35 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: unclebankster

Sigh.

There is NO such thing as a government shutdown.

Fedzilla deems anything Deep State want to continue running as “essential” and it keeps running.

Anything closed is something Deep State chooses to use to bring the pain to the public.

See how that works?


9 posted on 09/23/2024 4:02:29 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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Source: www.downsizinggovernment.org

10 posted on 09/23/2024 5:49:56 AM PDT by Liz (Faith is believing what you cannot see; its reward is to see what you believe. St Augustine)
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To: RandFan

Once again, failure pays better in American government.


11 posted on 09/23/2024 5:53:33 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: exDemMom
The DemocRATs just don’t care about service people the way he does.

The DemocRATs just don’t care about service people...unless they're helping push their emasculation agenda like that freak who defiles an Admiral's uniform.

And with 3 billion dollars already the Secret Service's problem isn't funding - it's management and it's failure to stay above partisanship (Mayorkis).

12 posted on 09/23/2024 5:56:27 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer (If you merely LOOK the fool people won't take you seriously.)
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Sign at Obama's Chicago home.

13 posted on 09/23/2024 5:58:40 AM PDT by Liz (Faith is believing what you cannot see; its reward is to see what you believe. St Augustine)
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To: Liz

secretservice.org is a federal law enforcement agency with headquarters in Washington, D.C., and more than 150 offices throughout the United States and abroad.

The diverse work force is comprised of more than 7,000 special agents, Uniformed Division officers, Technical Law Enforcement officers, and administrative, professional, and technical personnel.

Current budget is $3 billion with about $780,000 carried over, unspent from FY 2023 budget.


14 posted on 09/23/2024 6:06:18 AM PDT by Liz (Faith is believing what you cannot see; its reward is to see what you believe. St Augustine)
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FTA-——Congress included $231 million in new funding for the Secret Service in the wake of the apparent second assassination attempt against Trump.

The proposed funding for the Secret Service comes as the acting director, Ronald Rowe, has pushed for more resources for the agency.


15 posted on 09/23/2024 6:07:52 AM PDT by Liz (Faith is believing what you cannot see; its reward is to see what you believe. St Augustine)
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To: unclebankster

Would a shutdown help or hurt Trump going into November?

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If he condemns it and talks about “compromise”, “fully funding essential services” ,etc., etc. He’ll suffer no harm. Americans broadly do not care about budget deficits. They may grumble in passing about them, but if you suggest cutting off ANY money to them specifically through a cut, they will go ballistic.


16 posted on 09/23/2024 6:38:37 AM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: Bishop_Malachi
cutting off ANY money to them specifically through a cut, they will go ballistic.

What would that be?

17 posted on 09/23/2024 6:41:14 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: RandFan

SAVE Act

The bill unveiled Sunday excludes the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, despite Trump urging the party to fight to get the bill enacted this month, even if it means a shutdown.

Johnson is a sell out. Talks talk, doesn’t walk walk.


18 posted on 09/23/2024 12:54:16 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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