Shutdown risk looms as US Congress faces spending, impeachment brawl
Shutdown risk looms as US Congress faces spending, impeachment brawl
The U.S. House of Representatives returns this week for an expected political brawl over spending cuts and impeachment that could paralyze the Republican-controlled chamber, as Congress struggles to avoid a government shutdown.
The House and the Democratic-controlled Senate are due to be in session for about 12 days before funding expires on Sept. 30, leaving little time to agree on a package of 12 appropriations bills that can pass each chamber and win Democratic President Joe Biden's signature.
The main bone of contention among House Republicans is a demand by roughly three-dozen members of the hardline House Freedom Caucus to cut spending for fiscal 2024 to $1.47 trillion -- about $120 billion less than Biden and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy agreed in May.
The White House and Senate leaders -- including top Republican Mitch McConnell -- have rejected that demand.
That dispute and other hardline demands, including opposition to Ukraine aid and calls for an impeachment inquiry against Biden, could imperil efforts to pass a short-term stopgap, known as a continuing resolution or "CR," which would keep federal agencies afloat while lawmakers debate full-scale appropriations.
I'm so tired of Conservatives shutting down the government.
88I’m so tired of conservatives.
That’s my version.
75This is entirely avoidable. They could fund the government for the next century if they wanted to.
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Republicans pulled this same shit during Obama’s tenure. They have no intention of negotiating in good faith. They want the shutdown so they can point their fingers at Dems during their campaigns in the coming year. We’ll have a shutdown, suspending important government agencies and furloughing hundreds, if not thousands, of Americans just to manufacture an anti-liberal talking point.
55This is an annual occurrence now. It's just break time for senators while they get to point fingers. You're right on all accounts here. We should have term limits on these senators and get some new people who may actually want to... idk... govern or something
25Yeah, these people don't want to govern, they want to rule.
21It's the House that is the problem right now. The Senate might actually ram a bipartisan spending bill down their throats, they are apparently tired of this shit as well.
4They had a shutdown when they were in charge of congress and the White House a few years ago.
2Let's just do direct voting.
Solves so many problems when people get to directly vote on the problems that matter to them.
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Shit, they did the same thing this year with the debt ceiling. And now they're already going back on the promises they made. No reason to negotiate with these terrorists.
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Aren't these the same people who absolutely lost their shit over a "lockdown" that wasn't a lockdown and "shutting down" the economy during a worldwide pandemic?
So, in some reality, they understand that wholesale shutting things down without a plan is a bad thing, huh?
When will anyone wake up and start screaming in these motherfuckers faces "You're painfully transparently operating in bad faith, you piece of shit!"
32They know they're hypocrites. They're ok with it. You can't shame a Nazi as they are proudly goosestepping, that's just an entirely pointless exercise.
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The only thing that helps this headline stand out from so many "uh no, shutdown" headlines of the past is the included impeachment part. The shutdown will be used to its fullest drama potential just like before until the very end with some compromise, and the impeachment as well.
Is this impeachment about Hunter Biden, or have they moved on from that nonsense? Oh, it's about Joe Biden. Well, let's see what evidence you have to work with and...oh, you don't have any yet? That's kind of necessary, guys.
13oh, you don’t have any [evidence] yet? That’s kind of necessary, guys.
Conservatives: Is it, though? I don't need proof to know God exists...
These people live and breathe a false reality of a hierarchy that starts with God, who famously refuses to prove he exists, because otherwise people wouldn't have "faith" and for some reason God really needs you to trust him without any evidence, and if you don't... you're going to Hell to burn for eternity.
Huh, sounds a lot like the abusive demands of the conservatives. I wonder where they learned to be like that.
It was, and always has been, a cult of purposeful ignorance.
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