"Closing us down ain't happening til Hakeem does his Mexican Hat Dance on the floor of the Congress."
Posted on 09/30/2025 12:35:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Today is the day we stop pretending that it’s not.
Talks at the White House on Monday aimed at preventing a government shutdown left both sides far apart on a deal. Earlier in the day, reports emerged that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) would consider a ten-day extension of government funding if Trump agreed to negotiate on enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies that expire at the end of the year.
Reaction to this was swift. “You don’t pick a fight and then run away,” said Emma Lydon, managing director of P Street, the government relations arm of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. Within a couple of hours, Schumer told reporters that he would not back a short-term funding agreement under any circumstances. But one bigger problem with the conversation around government funding, with less than 24 hours to the deadline, is the nature of the fight being picked.
The negotiations and debates are operating under the premise that appropriations to federal agencies are flowing today and will stop flowing tomorrow, and that this is something political leaders want to avoid. It’s hard to uncover any evidence that this is truly the case.
The Supreme Court’s latest ruling definitively allows the Trump administration to cancel whatever funding they disfavor within 45 days of the end of the appropriation, without any approval from Congress. The administration now has power, formalized by the Court in a sleight-of-hand move by claiming nobody has standing to sue, to cut whatever they want out of the budget, at a time when they are pressuring Congress to send them a budget.
That Supreme Court ruling involved $4 billion in foreign aid funding that the administration semi-formally tried to rescind; it doesn’t include the $410 billion that the White House has simply withheld...
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It strikes me that these clowns, at whatever rag this is, are fatally abusing the word - “budget”.
Just give them the other 11 days off.
You’re right. A continuing resolution is FAR from being a budget.
"Closing us down ain't happening til Hakeem does his Mexican Hat Dance on the floor of the Congress."
And yet the world is still turning...
A few years before COVID there was a shutdown of “essential” workers.
The day of the shutdown there was suddenly a traffic jam and overflow of cars in parking lots in downtown Atlanta. It turned out most federal workers never worked, never came to work. But suddenly they came to work to prove they were “essential”.
All I read is a bunch of whining from Leftist bitches.
Photo....
“Hakeem, go get your castanets.”
Hakeem: “I wish I had them in my pants like the Trump fans.”
Photo....
Hakeem: I wore my disguise and infiltrated the GOP meetings.
No one suspected a thing. I found out they’re on the side of the American people, they hate socialism and they’re loyal to Trump.”
Chuck: I doubt your disguise worked. Nobody could look as stupid and goofy as you do.
We gotta get that pic of Hakeem wearing the sombrero on a tee shirt.
It’ll drive the Dems wild.
Get your concession stand permit to start selling them when they come out. A sure seller.
Get your concession stand permit to start selling them when they come out.
Hakeem in sombrero on a tee shirt. A sure fire seller.
It seems like every government shutdown is about the same thing. The DemocRATs want to keep increasing spending, despite the trillions in debt. They just can’t let go of the Cloward-Piven scheme.
I hope they shut it down so Trump can further trim the Deep State.
The radical lefty base has no idea what it is doing.
Juaqeem.
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