With just days to go before the government runs out of money, the Senate has unveiled a bipartisan stopgap bill in a bid to avert a shutdown – but there’s no guarantee that it will be able to pass in the House as a bloc of conservatives rail against the prospect of a short-term funding extension.
    • TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      11·
      9 months ago

      Yes, but when the House can’t get their act together and service folk in the military have to work without pay (and all the others deemed essential), then senate can remind those essential people it was their representatives in the House that axed the workers paychecks (but not their own paychecks). Perhaps the freedom caucus will be free of their $174K+ a year jobs.

      • jscummy@sh.itjust.works
        17·
        9 months ago

        You would think. Turns out burning the government to the ground and forcing service members to work without pay is a winning stance in GA and FL these days

        • TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          5·
          9 months ago

          Yeah, but that’s before you’re told that you are essential and have to buy gas and come to work to pat down people before they board the airplane while not getting a check.

          According to reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-government-shutdown-what-closes-what-stays-open-2023-09-21/

          2 million U.S. military personnel would remain at their posts. Agents at the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and other federal law enforcement agencies would remain on the job, and prison staffers would continue to work. Border Patrol and immigration enforcement agents would continue to work, as would customs officers. Airport security screeners and air-traffic control workers would be required to work. U.S. embassies and consulates would remain open under the State Department’s 2022 shutdown plan.

          Those people might decide to vote for a non-republican candidate.

          What’s gonna rub the die hards the worst?

          White House furloughs could make it harder to comply with the impeachment investigation of President Joe Biden, a Democrat, by Republicans in the House of Representatives.

          The U.S. Constitution specifies that the president continues to get paid.

          That’s right, the Republican freedom caucus will potentially delay the impeachment investigation of President Joe Biden while he gets paid to be in office. And that might actually be a Democratic talking point, especially if there’s the daily jab by Biden, “I just want to thank the Freedom Caucus for slowing down my impeachment investigation by shutting down the government. Thanks Marge!”

  • Drusas@kbin.social
    19·
    9 months ago

    It is also likely that House Republicans will strip out the minimal money for Ukraine that the Senate has included in its stopgap, senior GOP sources said, given that many hardliners are opposed to it and they can’t afford many defections.

    Traitors to democracy in the pocket of Russia.

  • halfempty@kbin.social
    10·
    9 months ago

    Conservative house extremists WANT a shutdown. They are anti-government more than they even care about any issues they bring up in particular. Since the result of a shutdown is exactly what they want, they have no incentive at all to avoid it.

    • SoylentBlake@lemm.ee
      3·
      9 months ago

      If they had any quality of character these grifters would be refusing to take the pay and benefits package but is that what we see?

      Noooooooooooooope.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    31·
    9 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    With just days to go before the government runs out of money, the Senate has unveiled a bipartisan stopgap bill in a bid to avert a shutdown – but there’s no guarantee that it will be able to pass in the House as a bloc of conservatives rail against the prospect of a short-term funding extension.

    Schumer said earlier Tuesday, “We will continue to fund the government at present levels while maintaining our commitment to Ukraine’s security and humanitarian needs, while also ensuring those impacted by natural disasters across the country begin to get the resources they need.”

    But House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told reporters that funding for Ukraine should not be included in a short-term spending package, and instead should be a standalone bill.

    McCarthy has remained noncommittal on whether he would put a bipartisan Senate-passed stopgap measure to avert a shutdown on the floor this week ahead of the deadline.

    McCarthy indicated that if the House is able to pass the series of spending bills it has lined up for consideration this week, then he would put a stopgap measure on the floor that includes border provisions.

    Government operations and services that continue during a shutdown are activities deemed necessary to protect public safety and national security or considered critical for other reasons.

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