Posted on 09/22/2024 9:18:02 PM PDT by Javeth
Congressional leaders announced a bipartisan agreement Sunday on a short-term spending bill that is expected to be approved and sent to the White House this week to head off a possible partial government shutdown when the new budget year begins Oct. 1.
The House is set to vote early this week on a three-month continuing resolution that will fund the government at the current fiscal year’s spending levels until Dec. 20. The bill does not include the controversial Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act that doomed its predecessor, and trims some extra spending that the previous version included, too.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, Louisiana Republican, wrote in a letter to Republicans that he was pushing the latest effort to prevent the Senate from jamming the House with a stopgap that could be “loaded with billions in new spending and unrelated provisions.”
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Who cares? Shut it down. The vast majority don’t even understand what that means or really don’t care.
I disagree. The attention span of the voter is limited. For months it’s been bombarded with dramatic twists and turns of the presidential race.
Congress has been a sideshow. The only impact of a shutdown would be, “Ah! The Republicans have shown they can’t govern!” The nuances of political brinksmanship would be lost on at least 80% of voters. The result would be a lost house majority.
please, ‘splain to me, what the hell is the point in having the majority if the Damnocrats get everything their way?
You use the majority when it’s not suicidal to do so. A year and a half ago, or even six months ago.
A shutdown at this late date accomplishes nothing except blowing out any centrist from his seat and handing Speaker Hakim Jeffries a huge majority.
Exactly.
The longer these CUCKS capitulate the harder the ramrod of MAGA will be on all of them. The blowback will be monumental and well deserved.
I've heard that has happened before.
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