Official Government Shutdown 2023 Thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like some of you are getting a (delayed paid) vacation.

Yeah, we’ll, i don’t have any $$$ to go on vacation if this lasts too long…

but also you have to report to work the next working day after funding is signed by the president, or you are AWOL.

Guess i'm cleaning (read: eating from) the freezer. Maybe going to the library.

Same. Will probably use the time to deep clean my house (no cleaners) and get out the Halloween stuff.
Read a book? Start a knitting project? But definitely not going anywhere since my job requires me to be in the building everyday.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Chance of a shutdown lessening each day. Conservatives/freedom caucus overcorrected. Senate is pretty unified against. McCarthy will throw a bone to freedom caucus by opening a fake impeachment inquiry.

The freedom caucus crazies will not be placated as
the fake impeachment has blown up in their idiotic faces.

Really? Go on! I hadn’t read that

They held a hearing where not a single one of their hand picked witnesses said they thought the standard for impeachment had been met.

Some Rs think McCarthy set them up for failure altho most people doubt McCarthy is that competent or clever

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looks like some of you are getting a (delayed paid) vacation.

Some of us are excepted and being forced to work and have contractors spouses who may not get paid if this goes on. This is fairly awful for many of us.

[Anonymous]

Being reported on Twitter:

GOP lawmakers saying plan now is to spend next two weeks passing full year spending bills during a shutdown. Say Oct 13 paycheck for troops is the real deadline

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Being reported on Twitter:

GOP lawmakers saying plan now is to spend next two weeks passing full year spending bills during a shutdown. Say Oct 13 paycheck for troops is the real deadline

Now this, I could believe. I don't love it, but it's more realistic at this point than anything this weekend.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just pass a clean CR and call it day. Discretionary cuts won't fly in the Senate. Ukraine and Disaster $ won't fly in the House. It's too late to start negotiations on border funding. Just straightline it--the crazies will vote against it anyway, but enough R's will be on board to pass it in the House and at this point the Senate D's will just need to man up and agree to a clean version that doesn't give them what they want. Easy peasy.

Republicans need democrats to pass a clean CR and McCarthy knows that he will lose the speakership if he goes down that road

He can't get a CR w/deep cuts through. He has to get something to the floor that everyone (minus the freedom caucus) will agree to. That's called governing. Dems will all vote for a clean CR and we need just a small number of R's to move over to make this happen. It's called governing. He'll lose the speakership either way. They already want to replace him because he's not going deep on their demands. He can shut down the government, get a CR done, and then step aside, which he'll have to do either way. He's holding onto a fantasy.

You are under the impression that McCarthy cares - at all - about governing? That's sweet.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like some of you are getting a (delayed paid) vacation.

Please don’t put it those terms. Feds just want to do their jobs, like everyone else. Nothing — and I mean nothing — about this is vacation-like.

You are not working, and getting paid for it. That's about as vacation-like as it gets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like some of you are getting a (delayed paid) vacation.

Please don’t put it those terms. Feds just want to do their jobs, like everyone else. Nothing — and I mean nothing — about this is vacation-like.

You are not working, and getting paid for it. That's about as vacation-like as it gets.

You know it’s not a vacation.

[Anonymous]

This will be problematic come the election

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This will be problematic come the election

Yes. A bunch of purple district Republicans are now on record as having voted to cut a bunch of popular programs by 30%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This will be problematic come the election

The conservative hardliners don't care about that. And anyway, all the Republicans know they are going to lose bigly. Abortion is an albatross.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Being reported on Twitter:

GOP lawmakers saying plan now is to spend next two weeks passing full year spending bills during a shutdown. Say Oct 13 paycheck for troops is the real deadline

I hope that's true but I also just don't get who's going to cave.

I mean, I wish they'd just gotten it done when they should have, but at this point, 2 weeks sounds like best case scenario and I hope they can do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Being reported on Twitter:

GOP lawmakers saying plan now is to spend next two weeks passing full year spending bills during a shutdown. Say Oct 13 paycheck for troops is the real deadline

Link?

[Anonymous]

This will end when GPS is hours from crashing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like some of you are getting a (delayed paid) vacation.

Please don’t put it those terms. Feds just want to do their jobs, like everyone else. Nothing — and I mean nothing — about this is vacation-like.

You are not working, and getting paid for it. That's about as vacation-like as it gets.

You know it’s not a vacation.

If someone told me I couldn't work, would get paid for the time, and needed to stay home, I'd absolutely consider it a vacation. The fact that you can't spend it at the beach doesn't change that.