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The three-week Continuing Resolution that Democrats caved in on and passed a few weeks ago, expires on Thursday, Feb. 8. Like four days from now.
Will the Dems try their govt-shutdown tactic again? Or have they learned from the whipping they took the last time?
Any chance the Democrats will actually start cooperating for the good of the nation for a change? And help pass an actual budget, so we can finally get off these silly CRs?
Lawmakers push fifth short-term bill to avert government shutdown
Deirdre Shesgreen, Eliza Collins and Nicole Gaudiano,
USA TODAY Published 5:36 p.m. ET Feb. 1, 2018 | Updated 5:48 p.m. ET Feb. 1, 2018
WASHINGTON — Start your government shutdown clock again.
With another fiscal deadline looming, Republican leaders said Thursday the House and Senate would vote on a fifth short-term spending bill next week to keep the government open past Feb. 8, when current federal funding runs out.
“We’re still negotiating the contents and the duration of that,” House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., told reporters in West Virginia where House and Senate Republicans were holding their annual retreat.
But the plan for another stop-gap bill quickly ran into resistance from hardline House conservatives, as well as House Democrats, so it’s not clear Ryan has the votes to pass such a measure.
House Democrats leave Feb. 7 for their annual retreat, adding pressure to pass legislation early.
The right controls the government. If they can't run it, maybe people shouldn't have elected them.
Funny how when the right-wing Tea Party shut down the government in 2013, the right-wingers all over thought it was the greatest thing ever. The far-right also eagerly supported the "party of NO!" with no effort made to work with Democrats. It also worked great for them in elections, interestingly.
Why, it's almost like right-wingers are partisan hypocrites who view the value of all actions strictly by whichever team initiated them! But that can't be, as we're so often reminded around here of just how "smart" they all are. Sure...
The right controls the government. If they can't run it, maybe people shouldn't have elected them.
Funny how when the right-wing Tea Party shut down the government in 2013, the right-wingers all over thought it was the greatest thing ever. The far-right also eagerly supported the "party of NO!" with no effort made to work with Democrats. It also worked great for them in elections, interestingly.
Why, it's almost like right-wingers are partisan hypocrites who view the value of all actions strictly by whichever team initiated them! But that can't be, as we're so often reminded around here of just how "smart" they all are. Sure...
Oh, look at that. More people blame Trump and the Republicans for the shutdown than the Democrats. Gee, maybe electing a man-child stooge who claims to be "the great negotiator" while still being unable to get his own party to work together was a bad idea.
You're wrong, and that's the simple reality of it.
Oh, look at that. More people blame Trump and the Republicans for the shutdown
Leftists will never be accountable and take some responsibility. Instead, they want to act like whiny school children by blaming everything on everyone else, and hoping people would listen.
Trump has more leverage this time, because I don't think Scumer will want to be blamed for another shutdown.
Trump can demand more, knowing that Scumer will fold quicker than before.
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