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Republicans finally have a way to win this government shutdown fight
Washington Times ^

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to direct the firing of unnecessary employees at 6 different agencies was “unlawful, invalid, and must be stopped and rescinded.”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 ...


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So if the Democrats cause a shutdown, non-essential employees won’t go back to work, even if ordered by a judge, because the Democrats won’t let them … hilarious 4D chess move !!!!
1 posted on 03/07/2025 9:09:08 PM PST by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

And there will be no bike rack barriers around The Wall and the Lincoln Memorial.


2 posted on 03/07/2025 9:15:01 PM PST by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: lightman

Exactly. And the government workers, who thought the Democrats were there friends, won’t be getting paid, because of Democrats … Absolutely hilarious March Madness


3 posted on 03/07/2025 9:19:02 PM PST by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

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!


4 posted on 03/07/2025 9:39:11 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: All

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?


5 posted on 03/07/2025 9:39:32 PM PST by Owen
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To: 11th_VA

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.


6 posted on 03/07/2025 9:46:54 PM PST by asinclair (It's too bad there will never be a RICO indictment of the DNC.)
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To: 11th_VA

When is Congress going to pass a budget?

(a CR is NOT a budget.)


7 posted on 03/07/2025 9:48:59 PM PST by ProgressingAmerica (We cannot vote our way out of these problems. The only way out is to activist our way out.)
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To: Owen
Why is this a good thing?

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

8 posted on 03/07/2025 9:50:09 PM PST by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

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.


9 posted on 03/07/2025 10:12:03 PM PST by grumpygresh ( Civil disobedience by non-compliance; jury and state nullification.)
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To: 11th_VA

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!


10 posted on 03/07/2025 11:46:07 PM PST by AZJeep (sane )
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To: 11th_VA

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.


11 posted on 03/07/2025 11:48:59 PM PST by Liz
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To: 11th_VA

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.


12 posted on 03/08/2025 12:21:20 AM PST by Degaston
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First and foremost, the Republican Party [the GOP] does not want to win any fight. Period. History has amply demonstrated that the Grand Old Party is more than content to let the Democrat Party take the lead and play second fiddle. They are more than happy to live off the crumbs that the Democrats throw them.
13 posted on 03/08/2025 12:55:51 AM PST by sport
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“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...


14 posted on 03/08/2025 4:57:36 AM PST by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: Owen

Agree.


15 posted on 03/08/2025 5:10:47 AM PST by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: Owen

To insist on no government is foolish


16 posted on 03/08/2025 5:18:51 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: 11th_VA
non-essential federal employees will be sent home laid off.
17 posted on 03/08/2025 5:55:08 AM PST by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: Owen

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.


18 posted on 03/08/2025 6:08:33 AM PST by Twotone ( What's the difference between a politician & a flying pig? The letter "F.")
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To: Twotone

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


19 posted on 03/08/2025 6:32:13 AM PST by Ex-Con777
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To: bert

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.


20 posted on 03/08/2025 6:32:20 AM PST by Owen
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