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I am so sick an tired of the GOP manufacturing this crisis every fucking year.
During the last shutdown threat (the one that resulted in McCarthy working with Democrats to kick the can down the road and ended with McCarthy kicked out), the Senate put forward a proposal that I think could end all this. If a budget isn't agreed upon, then current spending levels remain in place until a new budget is agreed upon.
In other words, say an agency gets $100,000 a month. Right now, if there is no budget, the government shuts down and the agency gets $0. WTH the proposal, though, the agency would keep getting $100,000 until something else was agreed upon.
This would take "government shutdown" off the table. Members of Congress couldn't sabotage the government by refusing to enact a budget. The best they could do is freeze all spending at current levels.
I’d suggest one tweak, and have the funding level automatically adjust periodically to track CPI or another inflation metric. Without that, the GOP could refuse to act indefinitely and the spending power of the various agencies would slowly degrade as their $100,000 budget becomes worth less and less.
Really? Fund it through January? And then go through this all again?
These assholes could fund the government for the next 100 years if they wanted to.
The more they elongate this manufactured crisis the more they can get out of each extension bill.
It seems like the only thing the House does anymore is fuck around over spending bills. When was the last time they actually did something useful?
It's quite possible that the Department of Agriculture will be unfunded by the Iowa primaries.
Johnson will depend on democrats the same way McCarthy did. The Republican nutsos won't like that. Remains to be seen what the senate will do.
I feel like we know what they’ll do.
Schumer delayed debate on the Senate CR tonight saying that "we will see what comes from the house". So it looks like the Senate will go for it.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In a letter to all House Democrats, Jeffries stopped short of saying party leaders are ready to endorse the GOP proposal, known as a continuing resolution (CR), which was introduced by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.)
The letter marks a sharp change of tone from just last week, when Democratic leaders had skewered Republicans for floating a “laddered” budget approach, which carves government funding into separate pots to be considered on different timetables.
That opposition, however, focused squarely on Johnson’s unusual procedural approach — a two-tiered plan that would extend some agency funding into January, and the remainder into February — rather than the substance of the spending.
And it excludes the thorny policy riders on issues like border security and abortion that have provided Democrats with an easy rationale for opposing GOP spending bills in the past.
“House Democrats are focused on keeping the government open while urging our Republican colleagues to work together in a bipartisan manner to lower costs, grow the middle class and protect our national security,” he wrote.
And across the Capitol, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) delivered a similar message on Monday afternoon, praising Johnson for proposing a “clean” CR, absent “poison pills,” and urging the Speaker to resist changes at the behest of his right flank, which would erode potential Democratic support.
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