Gov shutdown

[Anonymous]

Who decides what is a essential employee?? Why can't Trump and Republicans say who is and who is not? Boom! They cut everything they want...

[Anonymous]

???

[Anonymous]

Each agency decides what the bare bones essentials are to keep the agency from collapsing completely. That means that few — if any — services are actually delivered, and most offices will be closed. Is that really the “Boom” that you want forever PP?

[Anonymous]

Agencies decide with strong input for POTUS. And why not just cut nonessential? Because they are still essential to keeping the agency running and meeting their goals long term. I have a friend who practices law in affordable housing. And during shutdowns, her closings get paused. Eventually, they need to happen. I was nonessential at SSA for the first week of the Obamacare shutdown. Eventually they reclassed me as essential because someone needed to process the caseload and it could only pause so long.

It isn’t really what is most essential in a shutdown. It’s what must be done immediately. Court deadlines and TSA are immediate. Processing of new benefits applications may be able to wait a week or two. What must keep happening this minute vs what can get pushed for a week or two, and add it to the backlog. As a typical shutdown drags on, more and more Feds get reclassed as essential when they can no longer sit in pause mode.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agencies decide with strong input for POTUS. And why not just cut nonessential? Because they are still essential to keeping the agency running and meeting their goals long term. I have a friend who practices law in affordable housing. And during shutdowns, her closings get paused. Eventually, they need to happen. I was nonessential at SSA for the first week of the Obamacare shutdown. Eventually they reclassed me as essential because someone needed to process the caseload and it could only pause so long.

It isn’t really what is most essential in a shutdown. It’s what must be done immediately. Court deadlines and TSA are immediate. Processing of new benefits applications may be able to wait a week or two. What must keep happening this minute vs what can get pushed for a week or two, and add it to the backlog. As a typical shutdown drags on, more and more Feds get reclassed as essential when they can no longer sit in pause mode.

This. Non-essential doesn't mean surplus, it just means it can pause. And essential doesn't mean that person carries out the function of the agency, it just means they can't pause.

Security guards and lab animal feeders are essential, to prevent harm during a shutdown, but you can't have an agency that only employs security guards and animal caretakers.

[Anonymous]

Wasn't that basically Schumer's argument for supporting the budget bill. A shutdown would give Trump and his people more power

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wasn't that basically Schumer's argument for supporting the budget bill. A shutdown would give Trump and his people more power

Schumer is a pu##y

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who decides what is a essential employee?? Why can't Trump and Republicans say who is and who is not? Boom! They cut everything they want...

Because that is illegal Boom.

[Anonymous]

Protecting and securing the borders, and defending a country are the main reasons for a federal government to exist.

Preventing monopolies and settling major economic disputes is next.

So anything essential related to them.

Most everything else in government is not really essential, from a practical standpoint.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wasn't that basically Schumer's argument for supporting the budget bill. A shutdown would give Trump and his people more power

That's the way I see it. Dems have zero say in who is working and who is not.

[Anonymous]

Did the House pass the CR?