Posted on 02/18/2025 4:03:09 AM PST by RandFan
Congress is struggling to strike a deal to keep the government funded as a looming deadline to prevent a shutdown next month gets closer.
Lawmakers are less than a month away from a mid-March date to pass legislation to prevent a funding lapse — or risk the first shutdown in years.
“We can’t have precisely the same kind of deal we had before, and we’re trying to work to find some common ground,” House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) said shortly before the House left for a one-week recess this week.
Negotiators on both sides have been working to strike a spending deal for weeks, with hopes of crafting the 12 annual funding bills that could make it out of both chambers with bipartisan support – and across President Trump’s desk for signature.
But they also say the task has gotten more difficult as fallout spreads over a sweeping operation undertaken by the Trump administration to reshape the federal government
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
It looks like Cole and the GOP want a deal with the Dems.
It’s clear that much of government is fraud and waste and abuse and mismanagement. Shut it down. For a long time. See if anyone misses it.
Looking at the Congress, Res do not need any Dem votes.
They running on “continuous resolutions” which just continues the dysfunction and waste.
Congressmen are supposed to have budget, balanced and on time!? We pay them to do that!
They dont need their votes but he’s looking to do a deal in the quotes in that article.
Yep. Shut it down. As long as the traffic lights still work, I think we’ll be fine.
“and we’re trying to work to find some common ground,” House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.)”
This is the problem right here, Congress. Republicans have the majority, USE IT LOSERS.
Dems are ridiculous when they declare they will do things we actually want. Like Jim Acosta threatening a boycott or congress and the shutdown
Shut it down if they won’t agree to a line by line
In the future any threat of a shutdown can be muted with "why, what are you trying to hide/ram through?"
The US government is “Too Big To Fail”.
Therefore, not to worry.
The Government will bail itself out...
Yes it would be nice if they used GOP VOTES............ Tells you everything he’s looking to do a deal
I hope Trump doesn’t sign a bad deal
So was Lehman’s, Bearings, and many others
At some point you have to let it fail.
* I cleaned that up quite a bit...
It was just recently that the rats were screaming about not shutting down the government, now they are for it
Sigh.
There us NO such thing as a government shutdown.
In the past Deep State has deemed anything it wanted to keep running as essential (to Deep State) and shuttered anything it wanted to use to being the pain to taxpayers (national parks).
I’m hoping Trump will call their bluff.
And I’ll bet the prospect of Trump doing just that is scaring Deep State 💩less.
Shut the mufker down.
“It looks like Cole and the GOP want a deal with the Dems.”
The deal is a budget and not a continuing resolution. Democrats are going to try to shut down the government to blame Trump. All Trump needs is for the Republicans in Congress to stay united. Reconciliation will do the rest.
BS. The Shill is doing it job as paid propaganda for the Democrat party
Trump is showing them were to cut and what to close down.
Let DOGE review the budget bill.
Let DOGE strike out all fraud found in the bill.
I bet the 1000 page omnibus bill ends up less than 100 pages after a DOGE scrub.
When was the last time they obeyed their own edict and had an actual annual budget?
Not since they discovered they could steal much more with their continuing money-laundering schemes...
Given Trump’s popularity, running out the clock may FINALLY work against the Democrats.
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