Government shutdown again?

[Jason Harvestdancer]

Oh, it's time to pretend that the government is going to shut down again.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

So is Johnson going to be Speaker in 2025? 3 GOPs right now.

MAGA wing - non-pragmatic, non-partisan, chaotic, idiotic windmill tilters (Executive Branch)
Far right wing - Fox News bred true believers, voted to give Trump election in 2020 (House and a little Senate)
Conservative - stalwart conservatives that realize the system can't be demo'd quickly but suffocated slowly (Senate, a little House)

 

[lpetrich]

The final product was the third attempt from Johnson, the beleaguered House speaker, to achieve one of the basic requirements of the federal government — keeping it open. And it raised stark questions about whether Johnson will be able to keep his job, in the face of angry GOP colleagues, and work alongside Trump and billionaire ally Elon Musk, who called the legislative plays from afar.

The Republicans need Democrats for votes, and it shows.

“So is this a Republican bill or a Democrat bill?” scoffed Musk on social media ahead of the vote.

What's in this bill?

The drastically slimmed-down 118-page package would fund the government at current levels through March 14 and add $100 billion in disaster aid and $10 billion in agricultural assistance to farmers.

Gone is Trump’s demand to lift the debt ceiling, which GOP leaders told lawmakers would be debated as part of their tax and border packages in the new year.

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It’s essentially the same deal that flopped the night before in a spectacular setback — opposed by most Democrats and some of the most conservative Republicans — minus Trump’s debt ceiling demand.

But it’s far smaller than the original bipartisan accord Johnson struck with Democratic and Republican leaders — a 1,500-page bill that Trump and Musk rejected, forcing him to start over. It was stuffed with a long list of other bills — including much-derided pay raises for lawmakers — but also other measures with broad bipartisan support that now have a tougher path to becoming law.

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Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, said it looked like Musk, the wealthiest man in the world, was calling the shots for Trump and Republicans.

“Who is in charge?” she asked during the debate.

Still, the House Democrats put up more votes than Republicans for the bill’s passage. Almost three dozen conservative House Republicans voted against it.

 

[lpetrich]

Not again.

Speaker Johnson unveils bill to fund the government through September 30 | CNN Politics

House Speaker Mike Johnson formally unveiled plans on Saturday for a government funding stopgap through September 30 — a measure intended to stave off a potential March 14 shutdown and buy time for Donald Trump and GOP leaders to steer key pieces of the president’s agenda through Congress this summer.

But Democratic leaders quickly slammed the door on supporting the measure, raising the specter of a high-stakes clash next week.

The president himself on Saturday endorsed the measure, which includes some cuts to domestic spending programs that Democrats will likely oppose. GOP leadership aides said Saturday that it would increase defense spending by about $6 billion while domestic spending would drop by about $13 billion.

House Democrats push to sink GOP spending bill but Senate Dems act coy | CNN Politics

Donald Trump Calls for Key Republican Congressman to Be Primaried - Newsweek

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-KY.

He won't vote for this continuing resolution because it contains too much spending that he dislikes.

pResident Trump praised the House Freedom Caucus for supporting this CR:

"Thank you to the House Freedom Caucus for just delivering a big blow to the Radical Left Democrats and their desire to raise Taxes and SHUT OUR COUNTRY DOWN!" Trump wrote. "They hate America and all it stands for. That's why they allowed MILLIONS of Criminals to invade our Nation. Sometimes it takes great courage to do the right thing. Congressman Thomas Massie, of beautiful Kentucky, is an automatic 'NO' vote on just about everything, despite the fact that he has always voted for Continuing Resolutions in the past."

Then,

"HE SHOULD BE PRIMARIED, and I will lead the charge against him," the president continued. "He's just another GRANDSTANDER, who's too much trouble, and not worth the fight. He reminds me of Liz Chaney [sic] before her historic, record breaking fall (loss!). The people of Kentucky won't stand for it, just watch. DO I HAVE ANY TAKERS??? Anyway, thank you again to the House Freedom Caucus for your very important vote. We need to buy some time in order to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE. Unite and Win!!!

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

It isn't a CR if it is a budget. The DC portion ia probably the biggest poison pill as it shorts DC about $1 billion in their budget.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Looks like the GOP put the mother of all poison pills in the "CR" bill. They effectively are making it so that a member of Congress can't demand (as currently in the law) a vote to end a "national emergency" as proposed by the President... ie the manner in which Trump is enacting these tariffs.

GOP leadership slipped language into a House rule on their stopgap funding bill that would prevent any member of Congress from bringing up a resolution terminating Trump’s declaration of a national emergency over fentanyl and undocumented immigrants entering the U.S. The president has used that emergency declaration to justify his tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China.

Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) and Democratic colleagues filed privileged resolutions last week seeking to terminate the national emergency. As Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-Wash.) noted in a release announcing the resolutions, “The legal foundation of IEEPA, the National Emergencies Act, allows Congress to introduce a privileged resolution to terminate the authority, which must be brought to the House for a floor vote within 15 days.”

Republicans’ rule, which the House is voting on this afternoon, would block a vote on Meeks’ resolution, or any similar effort, by declaring that the remainder of days in the first session of the 119th Congress do not qualify as calendar days, exempting the national emergency from a law that allows Congress to force a vote. GOP leaders argue it would protect Trump’s authority on both tariffs and border security.

This would be another attempt to restrict Congress from have authority to run the Country as per its charge in the Constitution.

 

[Jarhyn]

Looks like the GOP put the mother of all poison pills in the "CR" bill. They effectively are making it so that a member of Congress can't demand (as currently in the law) a vote to end a "national emergency" as proposed by the President... ie the manner in which Trump is enacting these tariffs.

GOP leadership slipped language into a House rule on their stopgap funding bill that would prevent any member of Congress from bringing up a resolution terminating Trump’s declaration of a national emergency over fentanyl and undocumented immigrants entering the U.S. The president has used that emergency declaration to justify his tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China.

Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) and Democratic colleagues filed privileged resolutions last week seeking to terminate the national emergency. As Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-Wash.) noted in a release announcing the resolutions, “The legal foundation of IEEPA, the National Emergencies Act, allows Congress to introduce a privileged resolution to terminate the authority, which must be brought to the House for a floor vote within 15 days.”

Republicans’ rule, which the House is voting on this afternoon, would block a vote on Meeks’ resolution, or any similar effort, by declaring that the remainder of days in the first session of the 119th Congress do not qualify as calendar days, exempting the national emergency from a law that allows Congress to force a vote. GOP leaders argue it would protect Trump’s authority on both tariffs and border security.

This would be another attempt to restrict Congress from have authority to run the Country as per its charge in the Constitution.

So the bill itself is unconstitutional, but will be ruled constitutional by the supreme Court anyway

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Congress is kind of free to trade away any powers they'd like, so I don't think it'd be Unconstitutional.

 

[lostone]

Government shutdown and threats of it have become standard, ongoing Americans politics

 

[lpetrich]

Not again.

US government shutdown looms; Senate rejects stopgap funding bill | Reuters

The threat of a U.S. government shutdown surged on Friday, as the U.S. Senate rejected a short-term funding bill to keep federal agencies operating after September 30 and then left town for a week-long break.

The lawmakers voted 44-48 to defeat a stopgap spending bill that would have kept federal agencies operating at current funding levels through November 21. The measure faced near universal opposition from Democrats, who demanded increased healthcare funding.

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Democrats had demanded additional funding for healthcare subsidies under the Affordable Care Act and the restoration of funding cut from the Medicaid healthcare program for lower-income Americans. But that effort failed 47-45.

As US government shutdown nears, Trump administration mum on contingency plans | Reuters

The Office of Management and Budget this year asked federal agencies to update their contingency plans for how they will operate if funding runs out when the fiscal year ends on September 30. In past shutdowns functions like air-traffic control and law enforcement have continued, while financial regulators have furloughed the vast majority of their staffs.

Those plans were often shared weeks in advance heading into past shutdowns. But as of Monday, the current versions have not been widely shared with Congress or the public and White House web page dedicated to those plans was blank.

Trump scraps meeting with Democrats, raising government shutdown risk | Reuters

President Donald Trump on Tuesday scrapped a meeting with top congressional Democratic leaders to discuss government funding, raising the risk of a partial government shutdown beginning next week.

Democrats and the Republican president postured to try to pin blame on each other for a potential shutdown, which would interfere with a range of federal services and likely furlough hundreds of thousands of federal workers.