I may be wrong, but my understanding is when the govt shuts down military personnel will still be paid, social security checks will still go out, medicare and medicaid will still be paid so where’s the pressure on the Pubs? It’s the Rat base that works for the civilian wing of the govt. If I’m right as the pressure mounts on the Rats the Pubs my be able to leverage a lot of things into the final agreement.
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One would thnk that the House could easily send spending bills to the Senate to cover any real necessities. Would the Senate reject funding to keep the IRS going? It seems to me that this approach should have been used right from the get-go.
I think so too.
But now that we have reached that point I'm not going to look at what was done wrong in the past but what can be done right going forward.