A government shutdown increasingly looks inevitable as GOP opponents of a stopgap in the Senate seek to drag out the process ahead of a midnight Sunday deadline.   Opponents of the Senate stop…

A government shutdown increasingly looks inevitable as GOP opponents of a stopgap in the Senate seek to drag out the process ahead of a midnight Sunday deadline.

Opponents of the Senate stopgap, which is backed by leaders in both parties, are delaying a vote to give the House a chance to pass its own continuing resolution to fund government.

Senate conservatives want to give Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) more leverage to negotiate spending cuts and changes to immigration policy, leverage that would diminish if the Senate jams the House by moving first and passing a relatively clean stopgap.

It’s unclear if House Republicans will be able to rally around their own funding measure or if McCarthy would put the Senate bill up for a vote in the House once it passes the upper chamber.

  • Schwim Dandy@reddthat.com
    351·
    1 year ago

    Good. None of them are helping anyone they’re representing and we’re likely better off without them.

    • MicroWave@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      331·
      1 year ago

      A shutdown is not good, regardless of how you feel about these politicians. Literally millions of federal employees would be without their paychecks

      A shutdown that would halt pay for military families and government workers comes at a particularly precarious time for many households that are already struggling financially.

      https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/government-shutdown-federal-workers-lose-pay-military-rcna116891

      • UristMcHolland@lemmy.world
        91·
        1 year ago

        I was in Army basic training during the last government shutdown. What that meant for us was no busses to take us to ranges for training. No hot meals in the defac (cafeteria). Extremely limited ammunition for training. So we matched miles upon miles all over the base to get where we needed to go, pretended we had the ammo for the exercise and then we would march home and eat an MRE (meal ready to eat). 2 or 3 MREs a day for about 2 weeks straight. Shit sucked.

      • Wahots@pawb.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        It also has unintended effects on the nonfederal workforce too. Losing even more FAA staff cannot be good in addition to everything else the goverment orchestrates, funds, or builds. A long shutdown might affect the border, getting passports, student loans, rural hospitals that depend on Medicare funding, SNAP, etc…

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      231·
      1 year ago

      I for one appreciate having a food and drug association, environmental protection agency, and occupational health and safety administration. Partly because I’ve read about what it was like without them.

        • BertramDitore@lemmy.worldEnglish
          61·
          1 year ago

          These agencies have definitely made their fair share of mistakes/coverups and have had plenty of corrupt staff, but the overall quality of our health, food, air, and water would be significantly worse without them. I hate cliches, but we can’t let perfect be the enemy of good. For the most part, the scientists and bureaucrats that work at these agencies do their best with the extremely limited resources we give them. Their best is not perfect, but it is SO much better than nothing.

    • nillerus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      They’re going to furlough about a million federal workers, rejoin after a couple of days or weeks, the GDP will drop another 0.2%, and that’s that.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        We’re also potentially going to lose financial credit. One of our strengths as a nation was at one point that we were always good for the money we borrowed. Shutdowns compromise that and with it our dominance as a currency and trading partner.