Posted on 03/07/2025 9:09:08 PM PST by 11th_VA
Uncle Sam goes broke next Friday, unless Congress acts. We’ve seen this Kabuki play out many times, and the ending never changes...
Donald Trump has created a plot twist for this familiar tale. He’s insisting on a clean CR through September—without the pork—while continuing to put the entire federal bureaucracy on a diet. House Speaker Mike Johnson likes the idea and could have a CR on the floor as early as Tuesday…
Should the temporary funding extension fail, non-essential federal employees will be sent home. Essential employees will have to keep doing their jobs, but their paychecks will be delayed until the situation is resolved. Progressives assume this would help them politically because that happened during past shutdowns when Democrats occupied the Oval Office...
But it’s 2025, and federal agencies are no longer run by intentional obstructionists. The new management decides who qualifies as an essential employee. If handled properly, nothing important will close this time...
Left-leaning federal judges have been issuing temporary restraining orders to thwart the trimming of the federal workforce because they, too, are averse to smaller government. Recently, U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled OPM’s effort to direct the firing of unnecessary employees at 6 different agencies was “unlawful, invalid, and must be stopped and rescinded.”
a funding lapse would mean those non-essential employees couldn’t be put back on the job. In this way, a shutdown would bypass meddling jurists while giving the Supreme Court more time to weigh in on the extent of the president’s executive power under Article II of the Constitution.…
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
And there will be no bike rack barriers around The Wall and the Lincoln Memorial.
Exactly. And the government workers, who thought the Democrats were there friends, won’t be getting paid, because of Democrats … Absolutely hilarious March Madness
During one of the previous “shutdowns” 83% of the Federal workforce were deemed ‘essential.’ The democRATS made a media circus out of the Washington DC sleigh driver. The sleigh driver was classified as nonessential, so no sleigh rides near Christmas. Oh! The Humanity!
It is a clean CR, which means the spending level will be the same as 2024. No spending cuts. Who is supposed to celebrate this?
I believe it will also have the debt limit increased, which of course it must since we will be adding to the debt since without spending cuts there will be continued deficit of about 2 trillion with absolutely nothing in this CR to reduce that.
Why is this a good thing?
Here’s a radical thought: craft a CR that will provide pay only to those federal employees deemed “essential” during the shutdown period. That determination would be made by selected Legislative Secretaries: Defense, Justice, Homeland Security, State — for a start.
All animals are equal, except some animals are more equal than others.
When is Congress going to pass a budget?
(a CR is NOT a budget.)
Because the alternative is a spending increase. The Pentagon wants billions more, and they won’t get it unless the RATs get their share as well. A spending cut is not on the table
But by law the government employees still get back pay when the shutdown is over. Maybe no back pay should be put in the omnibus spending bill which would make shutdowns a way to save money.
During previous shutdowns, the employees on furlough got always they pay back.
I hope this is going to end. Just get paid for what you did, no work, no pay!
C’mon Don, what’re ya waiting for?
A spending cut is not yet on the table.
They can’t account for the billions they now have,
and yet the Pentagon wants billions more.
RATs get their share, as well.
Just get a clean CR through end of May and then later do one through the end of July and then another through the end of September. Have each address just the biggest lawfare issues they face with district judges who violate the Constitution or try to be the national decisionmaker for Article 2.
“Should the temporary funding extension fail, non-essential federal employees will be sent home. Essential employees will have to keep doing their jobs, but their paychecks will be delayed until the situation is resolved. Progressives assume this would help them politically because that happened during past shutdowns when Democrats occupied the Oval Office...”
Been there - done that...I was one of the “essential” employees....we all lived through it in the 2013 shutdown under ZeroBama - and those affected in 2018-2019 lived through it too when Pelosi and company shit it down to fight funding the Wall...
Agree.
To insist on no government is foolish
It’s a good thing if it’s used to buy time. Let funding continue as is. BUT, R’s need to start an agency by agency review & re-budget or terminate as necessary. If they don’t, then this is all still kabuki theater & will result in a Venezuela-type economic disaster.
The worst thing that can happen is the best thing. Trump gets to pick who is and is not “essential”. He can cut everything DOGE has targeted and no judge, no congress, no senate has a say in the matter until the shutdown is over.
Imagine Trump even vetoing a bad CR, allowing the shutdown to continue on his terms. He’s got them over a barrel, yet they keep fighting back for all of the wrong reasons.
Imagine a nightly address from Trump merely asking the question “Has this shutdown affected you in any way?”
EC
No government,eh?
The evils of nihilism.
The problem is we have reached a point where the question is which would you rather have, government or mathematics?
At 36T you can’t have both. The problem comes down to that.
Do you understand that? It will be 37.5 by the end of the CR.
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