The government standstill entered its 36th day, making it the longest closure on record. Congress has failed to approve funding for the new fiscal year that began on October 1.
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Is it because the President of the United States of America is a pedophile?
A lot of people are saying that
Smart People.
With tears in their eyes
Expect the government to be shut down until around 2030
It’s the best and most beautiful shutdown ever, nobody could do it so magnificent except for perhaps Lincoln, but he didn’t do it.
Also the dumbest president ever, so… :)
At least I think so. There are so many to choose from.
Yet another record for the pedophilic felonious rapist.
And knowing that, he was still elected . Voters knowing he represents the best of them.!
What is the point of a comment like this? Just another kick in the teeth?
The two longest shutdowns in U.S. history were both under Republican’s watch while they held both the House and Senate. And surprise, surprise…both under Trump.
Republicans can’t govern y’all.
Several records broken here. Longest, dumbest, most vindictive, worst explained, and many many more
Just show casing the fine leadership of dementia don
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I hope I’m wrong, but I expect the strategy to be for Republicans to wait until health insurance open enrollment is over in January, so people are either locked into price increases of 90% or have no insurance at all going through next year.
I think both parties were waiting to see how the elections go. I suspect shutdown talks will make more progress depending on how the elections went… And they didn’t go well for Republicans.
republicans almost never win when they create disasters like these, while still in control. they usually put it off til the dems are in power to do this.
A bigly shutdown ?
As a non American, what does it mean exactly. What is not getting done? It sounds like the country should come to a screaming halt and riots and protests etc
things aren’t getting funded but ppl are expected to do their job. Examples like airport and food inspections are running poorly. Plus to make matters worse president keeps saying he wont give back pay.
Wow this is even worse than I thought. Are people in these jobs unable to strike as well? Is there a meaningful difference between this and indentured servitude?
For air traffic control I believe its illegal to strike or something.
I asked the question why dont they quit till getting paid. Apparently its an issue with restarting benefits basically.
There are MANY, MANY layers of government in the US. Where I live, we have: cities - townships - counties - states - federal. Each of which draw taxes and fund workers and projects.
Every single one has a current budget aside from the federal level. So most day to day, local work is getting done. It’s the broader federal work that’s unfunded right now.
So roads are getting fixed, but NASA projects are unfunded. Local fire departments are getting paid, but federal food assistance is not.
If we have a hurricane, then the federal emergency management agency won’t have a budget to manage it (but they’re pretty dismantled already)
That means ICE is unfunded then, right?
…right?
because of this, they lost several elections dems recently, the longer it goes the more it benefits DEm, double edged sword.
Kinda running out the clock until midterms turn the house blue
Kind of like when McConnell ran into the clock on the Supreme Court appointee
It is amazing to me that Maga thinks the shut down benefits them
This isn’t strategy, it’s cruelty and corruption. They don’t want to feed poor people, and they also want to give more of our money to their insurance company CEO buddies.
