Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.)
And the people said Amen.
Fine by me, I’d prefer a government shutdown to their outrageous spending bill any day.
Shut
It
Down
In case anyone still wondered why they were in such a damned hurry to shovel your money into the pit before the new Congress, but just through September ...
... cut now, ring the ‘shutdown’ bell. Cut later, ‘shutdown’ alarm. It’s worked for them every time since 1994 and Newt; quashes any attempt to stop running the economy into the ground with unpayable debt.
This is bad?
AAAAAARGH.
Fedzilla NEVER shuts down.
The vast majority of it gets deemed essential and rolls merrily along over the American public.
Great, that’s EXACTLY what needs to happen. It WILL HAPPEN one day under the FORCE of real life circumstances.
What’s the downside?
Here come the scare tactics. And the dutiful mockingbird media will gin up grandma eating dog food so she can afford her medication. Countless other drama stories about the heartless GOP hating women and minorities and it will all be for naught because as long as Mitch McConnell has any input, Democrats will get whatever they want.
This is all such political theater. Half the budget is entitlements. Without entitlement reform, we would need massive cuts in defense to return the budget to 2022. The Republicans don’t have the guts to propose entitlement reform. In fact, the story of the Republican Party from the Bush era through the Trump era has been avoiding fights on entitlements and spending as a political “third rail.” So pledges to return spending to 2022 are just plain silly. And DeLauro’s threat is just political theater in response.
So be it.
Most Americans wouldn’t realize the federal government was shut down until Social Security retirement age.
About 95% of Republican voters wouldn’t realize the federal government was shut down until Social Security retirement age.
I would love for someone in congress to tell the bog witch that she shouldn’t threaten them with a good time.
Think about what 2022 funding levels as a nonstarter means: the government spending at the highest rates in history, when we were at peak “raid the treasury” levels (until the last raid on the treasury) is too big of a cut for the dems.
We’re not at war (at least not our troops openly anyway), we are past covid, Biden claims we aren’t in a recession and the economy is doing great. Congress should cut spending across the board and reduce the size and cost of government at least to 1999 levels, or to put it more politely, back to the last time Rosa DeLauro looked fully human. Wouldn’t that be wild?
So I dont see a problem.
In 2009-10 House Democrats passed a midnight Christmas Eve annual budget bill. Then they hid out, refusing to ever pass another annual budget bill. As I understand the current budget system The House is still surviving on short-term “continuing resolutions”.
This would mean House Democrats are responsible for the House’s ability to alter budgets mid-year, not Republicans. House Democrats placed Republicans in the position to revert back to the 2022 budget.
I think there’s a law as a result of previous government shutdowns which default’s future funding to past levels in the event of a shutdown. If this is correct then it places a big question mark behind this threat.
Finally we can have a real shutdown.