Let’s all please thank the Republicans by not ever voting for them.
Lol.
I’m a fed and in a team meeting this week a boomer went off about how “things are going to change when the incoming administration comes in!”.
Like, the fucking election is 14 months away and these dumbfucks are already taking victory laps. We’ll have another shutdown before the election even happens.
Lots of federal employees pay zero attention to politics.
Wasn’t there several shutdowms during Trump presidency?
The longest one was under a trump presidency, republican house, and republican senate. Republicans are guaranteed going to shut down the government any chance they get. It never shocks me ever, it’s in the platform to destroy function of the federal government
McCarthy should have worked with Democrats to avoid this shut down, but then he may lose his precious speakership because crazy Republicans would rather America burn than help.
Stop voting for Republicans, they don’t believe in our democracy or paying our bills.
But they believe in hurting anyone who isn’t a straight white dude, which is all conservatives care about in the end.
Anyone who isn’t a rich, straight, white dude.
Give them time, and they will be grading white males on their white-ness and commitment to a specific (to be determined) denomination of invisible sky daddy worship, and hanging those who don’t measure up.
If you’re white and Jewish or white and LGBT+, they’ve already decided you’re the same as a n***r.
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He’s lost his speakership regardless and he must know that by now.
Even European press is upfront saying the US government is shutting down because Kevin McCarthy is a terrible house speaker. And since being the speaker is all McCarthy has ever wanted I’m REALLY enjoying that aspect of this mess.
Im in the US and looking forward to another 15 rounds of voting for a new speaker.
The Bad Lip Reading video may not be funnier than the original this time
Is he a terrible speaker? Or did he launch himself headfirst into an impossible situation? Not to defend him, but I don’t think anyone put in the speakership with this Congress would be thriving.
Any other speaker would put together a continuing resolution that he’d be able to sell to every republican except the freedom caucus, then get 5 democrats in purple districts to vote for it and agree to back him when Gates then motioned to remove him as speaker. Republicans would have lost no real face except the insurrection caucus, who would have been left impotent for at least a few months. He’s had 2 opportunities to do this, at one point the dems were basically offering it on a silver platter (by talking to press about the possibility).
You’re putting way too much good faith into the Republican party. Way more than just the insurrection party are refusing to take part in any speaker vote that receives bipartisan support. They see collaboration as a poison pill. No one is surviving with the single vote guillotine, which is why it’s such a stupid ducking rule in the first place and had never been done before.
I guess as a Canadian, my question is (pre-brain issues) what made Mitch McConnell have such a stranglehold over the Senate in comparison? Is it just that McCarthy has razor thin margins in the House? I think Mitch would have been able to whip the votes to get the party to do what he wanted. How is McCarthy different?
And ps this system of constantly having to vote to avoid Government shutdown seems really dumb from an outsider perspective…
Biggest thing is that the Senate is populated with much more experienced Congresspeople, who have much longer election cycles. They don’t need to grab the headlines constantly to keep top of mind for their constituents.
I’d say there’s another portion that’s because things have simply gotten that much crazier in the last handful of years. Some congressman don’t have any shame as to their brazen sand in the gears.
Voting to avoid shutdown is really dumb from an insider perspective too. But the party that loves to do nothing refuses to change the rules to have an automatic continuing resolution without a budget. And any change to require “automatic vote of no confidence” would have to be a constitutional amendment, and thus will never happen.
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Republican’s policy for many years now has been to do nothing, complain about everything, and shut down the govt as much as possible. Idk how their voters could be so god damn stupid to not see this.
Their base doesn’t have to work, on both sides of the spectrum. So they don’t see the devastation of these hostage situations.
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Funny - didn’t hear anything about it last night…“What me worry?”
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The messages acknowledged the growing risk that millions of employees and military service members may stop receiving pay in just three days, unless lawmakers in Congress can clinch a last-minute deal that would extend government funding beyond Saturday.
Members of the military are expected to helm their posts even without pay, as are a select group of civilian employees — such as bag-inspection agents at airports and federal law enforcement officials — whose jobs are considered essential to public safety or national security.
Michael Linden, a former top official at the White House Office of Management and Budget, said the early notices reflected a political reality: Unlike past spending battles that yielded an eleventh-hour deal, “the chances of a shutdown are much higher.”
In the Senate, Democrats and Republicans inched closer to finalizing a bipartisan agreement that would fund federal agencies into November, but it remained unclear if they could pass it in time — or if the GOP-controlled House would even bother to consider it.
The official blueprints suggest that congressional inaction could force the government to halt some food and water inspections; slash nutrition aid to millions of poor families; and imperil the provision of money to Florida, Puerto Rico and other communities still reeling from major natural disasters.
Federal workers who go weeks without pay might cease showing up, potentially snarling air travel, while a series of programs that subsidize child care, college financial aid and public housing would start to exhaust their cash reserves, leaving lower-income Americans in a bind.
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Thanks for the heads up?
