At least all eyes in the media is laser focused on this sham of a governmental game show…..Dems have offered a compromise but that was a fart in the wind….things are looking close to dismal.

IST has a rundown for those that prefer to stir clear of the MSM and their constant tomfoolery.

The magic—or dreaded—number is four. As Reuters reports, the US is four days away from what would be the fourth government shutdown in a decade, and things aren’t looking very promising. The Senate is barreling forward with bipartisan temporary funding that House Republicans have already said they won’t support. If Congress can’t manage to pass legislation for President Biden to sign by 12:01am ET Sunday, millions of federal employees will be furloughed, among other consequences. The latest:

• On Tuesday the Senate handily (77-19) voted to start debating a temporary measure that would provide funding through Nov. 17 and greenlight about $6 billion each in aid for Ukraine and US disaster response efforts. The House GOP opposition is partially rooted in an insistence that any short-term funding measure also take on the issue of migrants at the border.
• The AP reports Speaker Kevin McCarthy is pushing for a Friday vote on House Republicans’ own stopgap funding measure that would see many federal agencies lose 8% of their funding and include that hard-line border security measure.
• Politico’s take: “McCarthy is already facing the threat of a far-right rebellion, one that would be virtually guaranteed if he put any Senate-negotiated plan on the floor with billions of dollars in Ukraine aid—not to mention a lack of further spending cuts and no border policy changes.”
• The Hill sums up the Senate’s chess move: the hope that “if they jam the House right before the deadline, McCarthy will relent and bring it to the House floor, where it would likely pass in a bipartisan vote.”
• CNN flags one potential Senate wrinkle. Getting the measure passed in time would require a sped-up process that all 100 senators would have to vote in favor of, but GOP Sen. Rand Paul has said he will “slow walk” any bill that contains more money for Ukraine.

This whole thing is just a game politicians play.

Now you know as much as anyone and you did not have to sit through endless commercials to get to it.

You are welcome!

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