Official Government Shutdown 2023 Thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is it—a clean funding bill without the extra Ukraine money. That can pass the House, probably, with moderate Republican’ts joining Democrats. Guessing the Senate will hold its nose and agree. When will this take shape? My guess is late Sunday. Back at work on Monday.

Ok, Kevvy. Bless your heart

Exactly what I said upthread! Clean CR-neither side gets what it wants and we’re done. TY kevvy!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So now McCarthy wants a clean CR. That’s hilarious.

Do we have an actual source for this news, or is it our resident optimist troll?

Also: McCarthy passes a clean CR with Democratic support, he’s voted out. Even if Dems support him being voted in again as speaker (can that happen?), how long is that cycle going to continue?

I’ll take optimism over sad cynicism. It can move rapidly in the senate because Rand Paul won’t delay things if the Ukraine money is taken out.

[Anonymous]

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Who are these weirdos still hoping there won't be a shutdown?

There is physically not enough time, people. There wasn't enough time at the beginning of this week either.

Math.

I’m not really following why it’s weird to hope there won’t be a shutdown. Seems to me that it would be weird to take the contrary position.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So now McCarthy wants a clean CR. That’s hilarious.

Do we have an actual source for this news, or is it our resident optimist troll?

Also: McCarthy passes a clean CR with Democratic support, he’s voted out. Even if Dems support him being voted in again as speaker (can that happen?), how long is that cycle going to continue?

Why on Earth would the Democrats support that slime ball. They are truly the biggest losers if they do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Who are these weirdos still hoping there won't be a shutdown?

There is physically not enough time, people. There wasn't enough time at the beginning of this week either.

Math.

I’m not really following why it’s weird to hope there won’t be a shutdown. Seems to me that it would be weird to take the contrary position.

I hope I win the lottery. It’s very unlikely, but I hope I do. Feels about the same with this shutdown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So now McCarthy wants a clean CR. That’s hilarious.

Do we have an actual source for this news, or is it our resident optimist troll?

Also: McCarthy passes a clean CR with Democratic support, he’s voted out. Even if Dems support him being voted in again as speaker (can that happen?), how long is that cycle going to continue?

Why on Earth would the Democrats support that slime ball. They are truly the biggest losers if they do.

Democrats are the party of good governance—they would put country over party (I think).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This will end when GPS is hours from crashing.

Not quite how it works, but yeah when they turn off civilian GPS and every Uber driver halts, good times.

GPS is a Federal service.

GPS IS USED WORLDWIDE AND EVEN THOUGH IT'S OWNED BY THE US GOVERNMENT IT WILL NOT BE SHUT OFF IN A SHUTDOWN.

EVERY WORLD LEADER WOULD COME DOWN HARD ON THE US.

I can't get anywhere without out and like to map my runs so don't want GPS shut down. But it would be nice if all those that hate the federal government and think it does nothing understood where the basic services they rely on daily come from.

Read up thread about how during a previous shutdown we were very close to losing gps functionality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So now McCarthy wants a clean CR. That’s hilarious.

Do we have an actual source for this news, or is it our resident optimist troll?

Also: McCarthy passes a clean CR with Democratic support, he’s voted out. Even if Dems support him being voted in again as speaker (can that happen?), how long is that cycle going to continue?

Why on Earth would the Democrats support that slime ball. They are truly the biggest losers if they do.

Democrats are the party of good governance—they would put country over party (I think).

Supporting in McCarthy doesn’t put country over party. If the Republicans can’t govern they can vote for a Democratic speaker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So now McCarthy wants a clean CR. That’s hilarious.

Do we have an actual source for this news, or is it our resident optimist troll?

Also: McCarthy passes a clean CR with Democratic support, he’s voted out. Even if Dems support him being voted in again as speaker (can that happen?), how long is that cycle going to continue?

I’ll take optimism over sad cynicism. It can move rapidly in the senate because Rand Paul won’t delay things if the Ukraine money is taken out.

No one is supporting anything Rand Paul is in favor of. He's a dipshit and I still wonder where his neighbor is when we need him1

[Anonymous]

With McCarthy's new announcement of a CR, are the odds now more like 50-50 of government being open on Monday?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This will end when GPS is hours from crashing.

Not quite how it works, but yeah when they turn off civilian GPS and every Uber driver halts, good times.

GPS is a Federal service.

GPS IS USED WORLDWIDE AND EVEN THOUGH IT'S OWNED BY THE US GOVERNMENT IT WILL NOT BE SHUT OFF IN A SHUTDOWN.

EVERY WORLD LEADER WOULD COME DOWN HARD ON THE US.

I can't get anywhere without out and like to map my runs so don't want GPS shut down. But it would be nice if all those that hate the federal government and think it does nothing understood where the basic services they rely on daily come from.

Read up thread about how during a previous shutdown we were very close to losing gps functionality.

People who vote to tear everything down really don't seem to care. It boggles my mind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:With McCarthy's new announcement of a CR, are the odds now more like 50-50 of government being open on Monday?

Nope, still close to 0.

[Anonymous]

I'm so drained from all the shutdown prep. This week has been a doozy with end of fiscal year and contingency planning for the continuum of shutdown scenarios. We have had to prepare communications to go out during the 4-hour orderly shutdown on Monday about contingency plans for everything happening over the next 6 weeks. If every fed in our office is furloughed, how much time would our office need to be open before a mid-October monitoring visit in order for it to happen as planned? What are the precise mechanics of the travel and budget systems, and which staff need to be available on which days to complete the required steps in the process?

I cannot believe what an incredible waste of resources a government shutdown is. It makes public servants feel unvalued. People are stressed about how to pay their bills with delayed paychecks or no paychecks for an undetermined period of time. It's such a dereliction of duty by Members of Congress.

We have done the absolute best we could to communicate with our federal staff and contractors and grantees about what a potential shutdown would mean for them. Staff have been really stressed working to get everything done by today to be ready for an extended shutdown. At this point, I'm hoping we're shut down next week to give people a chance to rest and recover so at least the preparations were worth it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm so drained from all the shutdown prep. This week has been a doozy with end of fiscal year and contingency planning for the continuum of shutdown scenarios. We have had to prepare communications to go out during the 4-hour orderly shutdown on Monday about contingency plans for everything happening over the next 6 weeks. If every fed in our office is furloughed, how much time would our office need to be open before a mid-October monitoring visit in order for it to happen as planned? What are the precise mechanics of the travel and budget systems, and which staff need to be available on which days to complete the required steps in the process?

I cannot believe what an incredible waste of resources a government shutdown is. It makes public servants feel unvalued. People are stressed about how to pay their bills with delayed paychecks or no paychecks for an undetermined period of time. It's such a dereliction of duty by Members of Congress.

We have done the absolute best we could to communicate with our federal staff and contractors and grantees about what a potential shutdown would mean for them. Staff have been really stressed working to get everything done by today to be ready for an extended shutdown. At this point, I'm hoping we're shut down next week to give people a chance to rest and recover so at least the preparations were worth it.

I hear you, we've been doing exactly the same. I work with a lot of our field staff around the country and they are out of the loop about what is happening in DC and why, they are usually out helping our customers all day and suddenly we're wasting their time with all of this nonsense and telling them their GS-9 pay will be delayed for an undetermined amount of time. It's exhausting.

[Anonymous]

I'm worried now they're going to do a last-minute 14 day extension and back to work Monday morning.