How long will the shutdown last?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“Nancy Pelosi's funding tactic for next week: Passing agency-specific funding bills on the floor, in an attempt to pick off more Republican support.

First up: A funding bill that would reopen the IRS, which would make sure tax returns are on time for millions.

The bill also includes a 1.9 percent pay raise for fed workers. And it would BLOCK the pay raise slated for the VP/executive office staff, per Dem aide.”
- Sarah Ferris, Hill reporter for Politico

Not sure how I feel about this. Tax refunds for his base is the only thing giving me hope that this will end soon. If we open up agencies one at a time, my agency will be dead last! Salaries should come before tax refunds.

Agree. They will keep the Smithsonian closed forever

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“Nancy Pelosi's funding tactic for next week: Passing agency-specific funding bills on the floor, in an attempt to pick off more Republican support.

First up: A funding bill that would reopen the IRS, which would make sure tax returns are on time for millions.

The bill also includes a 1.9 percent pay raise for fed workers. And it would BLOCK the pay raise slated for the VP/executive office staff, per Dem aide.”
- Sarah Ferris, Hill reporter for Politico

Not sure how I feel about this. Tax refunds for his base is the only thing giving me hope that this will end soon. If we open up agencies one at a time, my agency will be dead last! Salaries should come before tax refunds.

Agree. They will keep the Smithsonian closed forever

Sorry. But I bet they open the Smithsonian before EPA...

[Anonymous]

Look at this map. We have a major problem

[Anonymous]

Look at this map. Red States have a major problem:


Number of federal employees in agencies affected by the shutdown per 100,000 workers

[Anonymous]

Fun Fact: The deficit created daily in this country exceeds $5 billion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fun Fact: The deficit created daily in this country exceeds $5 billion.

The Democrats would be crazy to approve spending any money on the wall.
I will loose my faith in humanity if that happens

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fun Fact: The deficit created daily in this country exceeds $5 billion.

The Democrats would be crazy to approve spending any money on the wall.
I will loose my faith in humanity if that happens

Get ready for a long shutdown... no wall, no open government.

[Anonymous]

“Trump’s advisers came up with the “Wall” as a memory device to keep him from forgetting immigration in his campaign speeches. Now it is boxing in his entire presidency.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/05/us/politics/donald-trump-border-wall.html#click=https://t.co/BUTGxgroOX

[Anonymous]

Keep it shutdown!

This is start of class warfare on elites.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“Nancy Pelosi's funding tactic for next week: Passing agency-specific funding bills on the floor, in an attempt to pick off more Republican support.

First up: A funding bill that would reopen the IRS, which would make sure tax returns are on time for millions.

The bill also includes a 1.9 percent pay raise for fed workers. And it would BLOCK the pay raise slated for the VP/executive office staff, per Dem aide.”
- Sarah Ferris, Hill reporter for Politico

Not sure how I feel about this. Tax refunds for his base is the only thing giving me hope that this will end soon. If we open up agencies one at a time, my agency will be dead last! Salaries should come before tax refunds.

EPA? I’m with Interior and I was hoping they’d open agencies one by one. My bureau is well liked by Republicans.

I do not believe that agencies should be politicized though. The vast majority of my coworkers are apolitical. I’ve never heard politics being discussed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look at this map. We have a major problem

How so? The areas without fencing are extremely remote. There are no roads out there, no houses, nothing but desert. Crossing it is very difficult. Border Patrol would benefit from helicopters and drones for those areas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fun Fact: The deficit created daily in this country exceeds $5 billion.

The Democrats would be crazy to approve spending any money on the wall.
I will loose my faith in humanity if that happens

Democrats all voted for the wall in the past

Secure Fence Act, a 2006 political compromise on immigration. Signed by President Bush and supported by 90 Democratic members of Congress, it included funding for "two layers of reinforced fencing" plus "additional physical barriers" along roughly 700 miles of border from California to Texas.

Among the senators who backed it: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and current Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Keep it shutdown!

This is start of class warfare on elites.

Elites? Are you referring to federal employees? My coworkers make about 75k on average. Which isn’t peanut change but we don’t have any secretaries, cleaning people or new grads, which raise the average salaries because we don’t have lower waged people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Keep it shutdown!

This is start of class warfare on elites.

Yeah, that should go over really well with the MAGA crowd when they can't get their food stamps or tax refunds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Keep it shutdown!

This is start of class warfare on elites.

You are certifiably insane.