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Anonymous
I never hope that. But if it happens, I'm hoping for about a week. No less, no more. |
Anonymous
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So the House voted 3-1 for a Ukraine aid bill but failed to pass their version of the Ag approps bill?
What the hell is going on? We definitely headed to shutdown, unless maybe Mccarthy is just trying to show how ridiculous the crazies are so he can rely on Dem votes for the CR and not lose the chair |
Anonymous
I'll be pissed because any "resolution" they come up with will put us in the exact same spot in 30 or 45 days or however long the CR is. And I don't want to do this again. Work it out, people. |
Anonymous
My thoughts exactly. Shutdown bad, not rooting for it. But if it happens, it wasn't my fault so give me an actual chance to breathe, and don't make it go on so long the suffering is dire. |
Anonymous
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A shutdown makes America look pathetic.
We are supposed to have the greatest democratic government on the planet yet we can’t keep the lights on? Umkay. Republicans: rein in your team! They are embarrassing us in the global arena. Seriously. Dems: don’t bend over backwards! |
Anonymous
For a party prone to criticizing other countries as sh@tholes, they seem to lack a certain amount of self awareness. |
Anonymous
| I'm a fed who works for DOD and just got my leave and earning statement for the pay period ending 9/23/23 and with a pay date of 10/5, that is, next Thursday. Am I right that if we shutdown, this paycheck will go through but the next one would not if the shutdown lasts a while? |
Anonymous
| I believe that’s accurate. It’s already been processed and I recall getting that check in 2013. |
Anonymous
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Diane Feinstein died (RIP).
Does this change the vote situation? |
Anonymous
Wow. RIP. I'd guess not, since the Senate has been working constructively across the aisle this whole time. |
Anonymous
The Senate already needed R votes to pass a spending bill, so this shouldn’t change the calculus much. |
Anonymous
| The Hill says House approved DOD funding bill. Is this one that would be approved by the Senate. I know this won’t stop the shutdown but is it progress at least to pay the military? |
Anonymous
Yes. The uncertainty and prep already messed up my office's October timelines. I'm worried that if we go back after only a couple days, nobody will try to form a new plan, even though we'll be a week behind by then. |
Anonymous
Not true. This varies by agency. I work at NASA and we just had a meeting this morning about which tasks and employees are excepted. Even contractors, we have to establish the lists of essential personnel who can come on center. All of the rest, who are on forward funded contracts will be working entirely from home, like the pandemic. So, for example, on my team of 28, 4 of us will be essential and can come on center. The other 24 will have to work fully remote. But only a limited portion of our civil service management are exempted and we will have a slightly different chain of command during the shutdown. The rest of the management are coming in Monday or the orderly shutdown, most of which is personal laptops. Servers and services will remain up until the contracts that they are supporting run out of forward funding. So, if the government is still shutdown when the forward funding ends, then in the last 48 hours, we'll do orderly shutdown of the servers and services. |
Anonymous
| Where do things stand as of today? Somebody recap what the potential options to avoid a shutdown are at this point... |