And the Government Shuts Down...

[Webster]

Live updates: US government shuts down after last-ditch Senate vote fails

Government funding was cut off at midnight, likely leaving hundreds of thousands of employees on unpaid leave and halting many government services.

www.bbc.com

 

[MrDawn]

What a bunch of assholes.

 

[DrLeftover]

I'm glad you told me. I wouldn't have noticed otherwise.

 

[passenger]

I understand that Congress is still collecting a pay check ; so, maybe they're still covered.

 

[safeinsanity]

The dems would rather shut the government down than stop paying health care to their precious illegals.

 

[Webster]

(The Guardian) 'It's going to get more and more painful,' says Mike Johnson, as he claims Trump and Vought making cuts 'reluctantly'
Speaking to reporters this morning, House speaker Mike Johnson has indicated that lawmakers are no closer to a deal on government funding and, standing at a podium emblazoned with the words, “The Democrat shutdown”, continued to lay blame for the shutdown squarely on the opposition.

He continued to insist that the Republicans had nothing to negotiate over because they’re pushing for a “clean” continuing resolution, which doesn’t include any new GOP provisions and would just maintain government funding at the current levels.

Johnson reiterated his point yesterday that Chuck Schumer had “handed the keys to the kingdom” to the executive. The White House said today that federal layoffs will probably be “in the thousands”. Johnson said: The president takes no pleasure in this … When Congress turns off the funding and the funding runs out, it is up to the commander in chief, the president of the United States, to determine how these resources will be spent … He doesn’t want to do it.

Johnson also claimed the White House’s budget director, Russell Vought, is making cuts to the federal government “reluctantly”. (A reminder that Trump said earlier this morning that he couldn’t believe the Democrats had given him ‘this unprecedented opportunity’ to – with Vought – cut ‘many Democrat agencies’ perhaps permanently). Back to Johnson, who said:

Russ does this reluctantly … He takes no pleasure in this, because he has to sit down and decide, because he’s in charge of that office, which policies, personnel, and which programs are essential and which are not. That’s not a fun task and he’s not enjoying that responsibility.

He added this warning regarding the longer the government stays shut down: It’s going to get more and more painful. Because the resources run out and more and more things have to be reduced and eliminated.