House Republicans unveil their plan to avert a government shutdown next week
House Republicans unveil their plan to avert a government shutdown next week
Congress has until Friday night to keep the government funded. The House plans to vote on its short-term funding bill as early as Tuesday.
House Republicans on Saturday unveiled their stopgap funding bill to avert a government shutdown set to begin next weekend. But with just five legislative days left until the deadline, Congress has little room for error.
Just two and a half weeks into the job, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., opted to go with a two-step continuing resolution, or CR, over a more typical funding extension covering the entire federal government. The untested funding approach is aimed at appeasing far-right agitators in his GOP conference who despise CRs.
The House is expected to vote as early as Tuesday to give members 72 hours to read the text of the bill, according to two people familiar with matter. The plan does not include budget cuts or aid for Israel.
Under the two-step strategy — which Johnson and others have dubbed a “laddered CR” but which others have likened to a step stool — several spending bills needed to keep the government open would catch a ride on a short-term bill until Jan. 19, while the remaining bills would go on a CR until Feb. 2.
I can see two possible explanations for why they want this stupid "ladder" structure.
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They know a shut down will do them more harm than good politically, but can't just give up after demanding so many things that were never going to work out. Therefore, they put in this stupid gimmick that doesn't really affect anything, but which allows them to claim some kind of victory.
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They want to stagger the spending cut offs so they can threaten a partial shut down next time, which they can more easily defend while still inflicting pain.
“I just don’t think that Americans care that much,” Bishop added.
Smartest thing any of them have said in a while.
36Splitting parts of government that they consider essential from those they're willing to hold hostage. TSA and defence in one bill, medicare, FDA, and DOT in the other.
21xactly
3While I'm sure that's the case, I don't think that makes much of a difference. The whole government shuts down two weeks later, so doesn't really separate the issues. It just make it easier for them to go over the cliff, since they won't care about the harm being done, and won't have to answer questions about voting against things their supporters care about while they're trying to play hardball.
In other words, this doesn't accomplish anything meaningful on its own, it just tries to put them in a better bargaining position so they can make stronger demands next year.
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they want it to group everything they want to defund in one place and not let it go through.
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So . . a shutdown, then.
Yeah.
23It's like a shutdown but with extra steps!
10Their hope is that the average voter is too stupid to work through the extra step.
Sad part is… that’s not entirely unrealistic. Their voters are DuMb
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Senate already said absolutely not. They don't want to shut down different agencies one at a time during an election year,
Hes settling on a shutdown
20Damn, that’s not a ladder, not even really step stool. Would you believe a threshold, just tall enough to trip over?
17Do they plan to fuck off and die?
15What a plan, inflating one of the tires on the bike...
14Is it adhere to the budget you all already passed? Is it to be responsible for once?
7Give them nothing and let them take the blame like they always do.
2This way they can sell the idea that liberals got on a higher and higher rung before doing a backflip body slam on thier plans?
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