Category: Fiscal Policy

Oh SNAP–Part 2

There has been a yo-yo battle going on between Donny and the courts about the payment of SNAP funds….finally it is settled but Donny has other plans….

The Trump administration has ordered states to halt the distribution of full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits for November, promising consequences if they don’t.
In a memo, the Agriculture Department authorizing state governments to make only partial disbursements to the more than 40 million people enrolled in the program—roughly 65% of the usual amount. State officials were told to “immediately undo any steps taken” to provide the full amounts, the Washington Post reports. If they don’t comply, the memo said they could lose federal funding that helps cover SNAP’s administrative costs.

SNAP is the country’s largest anti-hunger program, serving primarily children, seniors, and adults with disabilities. While benefits are federally funded, states are responsible for administering the program and share administrative expenses with the federal government. The memo follows a legal back-and-forth in which a Rhode Island judge had ordered the administration to release the full benefits despite the government shutdown. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson temporarily blocked that order late Friday, allowing the administration’s directive to proceed for now.

The administration’s order was sent out last Saturday night, per the New York Times. By Sunday morning, officials in several states said they were unsure what the effects would be. Some states had already released the full amount to recipients who hadn’t gotten payments due at the beginning of the month. Trump administration officials are “demanding that food assistance be taken away from the households that have already received it,” said the top Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee in a statement. “They would rather go door to door, taking away people’s food, than do the right thing and fully fund SNAP for November so that struggling veterans, seniors, and children can keep food on the table,” said Rep. Angie Craig.

This d/bag gets more disgusting by the day.

How can anyone call themselves an American support this a/hole and his merry band of fools?

In a time when people could go hungry and this moron is worrying about naming a stadium after him….cannot get more disgusting in my opinion.

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‘Daddy State’ Economics

I am old enough that I remember when the GOP was always accusing the Dems of pushing a ‘Nanny State’ agenda.

In case you are a youngster…..what is Nanny State?

Nanny state is a term of British origin that conveys a view that a government or its policies are overprotective or interfering unduly with personal choice. The term likens such a government to the role that a nanny has in child rearing.

Did that rattle any stones in the brain?

But everything the conservs accused the liberals of doing they in turn must think they were some good ideas for they have taken it upon themselves to do ….

The control of the media, concentration camps, crashing the economy, etc etc etc…..

The question of whether President Donald Trump has turned the United States toward a new “state capitalism”—one in which the government is not just economic referee but active player—has been answered. His second term brings policies that go well beyond traditional Republican pro-market orthodoxies, such as tax cuts and deregulation, and into direct involvement with production and capital. Yet this doctrine is less a coherent grand strategy than a set of ad hoc deals, sometimes pro-market and sometimes interventionist.

Some Trump policies—tax cuts, deregulating, talk of budget-deficit reductions—retain a traditional Republican tone. On the other hand, this administration’s protectionism and tariffs would have been inconceivable a decade ago. Republicans would also traditionally label the government’s acquisition of a 10 percent stake in Intel as socialism if proposed by anyone other than Trump. And other policies have the feel of mafia tactics made possible by the exercise of leverage, like letting Nvidia and AMD sell their chips to China in exchange for a 15 percent cut back to the U.S. government.

Trump also departs markedly from the past GOP playbook in his lack of recognition that the market allocates resources much better than politicians and bureaucrats do. He treats the market as a stage for negotiation to reorganize the world’s economies. Old-guard Republicans were globalists, whereas Trump built his appeal on “America First” nationalism and protectionism.

Earlier Republicans valued predictable rules, but as Cambridge legal scholar Antara Haldar noted in a Project Syndicate symposium this month assessing the direction of “Trumponomics,” the president “is willing to break any rule, norm, or promise…in the name of striking ad hoc corporate-style ‘deals.'” Where conservative-minded leaders of the past obscured the state’s role, Trump “flaunts it.”

https://reason.com/2025/09/18/trump-is-embracing-daddy-state-economics/

All of Donny’s moves with the economy is starting to smell like state capitalism…..

State capitalism is an economic system in which the state uses and controls the free-market system to protect its political regime through leading economic activities. This regime dominates the resource allocation mechanism and the resources to guarantee its persistence. It controls the market system by using four powerful tools: National oil companies, sovereign wealth funds, state-owned enterprises, and privately owned national champions. These engines contain the state wealth and become the device to generate internal and external influences.

Is our Little Donny embracing state capitalism?

The question of whether President Donald Trump has turned the United States toward a new “state capitalism”—one in which the government is not just economic referee but active player—has been answered. His second term brings policies that go well beyond traditional Republican pro-market orthodoxies, such as tax cuts and deregulation, and into direct involvement with production and capital. Yet this doctrine is less a coherent grand strategy than a set of ad hoc deals, sometimes pro-market and sometimes interventionist.

Some Trump policies—tax cuts, deregulating, talk of budget-deficit reductions—retain a traditional Republican tone. On the other hand, this administration’s protectionism and tariffs would have been inconceivable a decade ago. Republicans would also traditionally label the government’s acquisition of a 10 percent stake in Intel as socialism if proposed by anyone other than Trump. And other policies have the feel of mafia tactics made possible by the exercise of leverage, like letting Nvidia and AMD sell their chips to China in exchange for a 15 percent cut back to the U.S. government.

https://reason.com/2025/09/18/trump-is-embracing-daddy-state-economics/

Sounds like Donny is embracing a lot of things that he and others accused the Dems of supporting…..or is that just me?

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Oh SNAP!

AS of Saturday there should be no funding for the SNAP…..but a couple of judges has told Donny to find the funds….

Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Trump’s administration must to continue to fund SNAP, the nation’s biggest food aid program, during the government shutdown, per the AP. The rulings came a day before the US Department of Agriculture planned to freeze payments to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program because it said it could no longer keep funding it due to the shutdown.

The administration has said it wasn’t allowed to use a contingency fund with about $5 billion in it for the program, but the judges rejected that. A federal judge in Rhode Island ruled that the program must be funded using at least the contingency funds—and asked for an update on progress by Monday. A Massachusetts-based judge also gave the administration until Monday to say whether it would partially pay for the benefits for November with contingency money or fund them fully with additional funds.

We await Donny’s to respond.

In a disturbing move the USDA(Trump Administration) has cautioned grocery stores on trying to help people…..

As the Trump administration continued its illegal freeze on food assistance, the US Department of Agriculture sent a warning to grocery stores not to provide discounts to the more than 42 million Americans affected.

Several grocery chains and food delivery apps have announced in recent days that they would provide substantial discounts to those whose Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits have been delayed. More than 1 in 8 Americans rely on the program, and 39% of them are children.

But on Sunday, Catherine Rampell, a reporter at the Washington Postpublished an email from the USDA that was sent to grocery stores around the country, telling them they were prohibited from offering special discounts to those at greater risk of food insecurity due to the cuts.

“You must offer eligible foods at the same prices and on the same terms and conditions to SNAP-EBT customers as other customers, except that sales tax cannot be charged on SNAP purchases,” the email said. “You cannot treat SNAP-EBT customers differently from any other customer. Offering discounts or services only to SNAP-eligible customers is a SNAP violation unless you have a SNAP equal treatment waiver.”

The email referred to SNAP’s “Equal Treatment Rule,” which prohibits stores from discriminating against SNAP recipients by charging them higher prices or treating them more favorably than other customers by offering them specialized sales or incentives.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/usda-tells-grocery-stores-they-can-t-give-discounts-to-people-hit-by-trump-s-food-stamp-freeze

Just how bad does the Donny regime hate people?

A disgusting move from a disgusting pack of animals.

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And The Game Goes On

The governmental shutdown shows no signs of a comprise to return workers to their chores…..plans offered….plans defeated….plans offered…..on the beast goes on….

Efforts to resolve the ongoing government shutdown stalled again on Wednesday, with the Senate rejecting both Democratic and Republican proposals to restore funding. Both parties remain firm in their demands, extending the deadlock that began eight days ago, the Guardian reports. The vote on a stopgap funding bill already approved by the House was 54-45, with no new Democrats in favor, CBS News reports. In the sixth vote on the rival spending bills, the Democrats’ measure also failed to get the necessary 60 votes. Senate Majority Leader John Thune plans to hold a seventh vote on Thursday.

The shutdown has resulted in closed federal offices, shuttered national parks, and thousands of furloughed workers. Remaining federal employees, including military personnel, could soon miss paychecks if the impasse continues. Democrats insist any funding deal must include health care measures, particularly an extension of Affordable Care Act premium tax credits set to expire at the year’s end. Without renewal, roughly 20 million enrollees face higher costs. Republicans favor a short-term funding approach through Nov. 21 with no guarantee of health care provisions.

The situation has led to pointed remarks on both sides. House Speaker Mike Johnson claimed Democrats are “worried about the Marxist flank” in their party and said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is “terrified” of a challenge from the far left, the Guardian reports. Schumer, in turn, argued Republicans are to blame for refusing to negotiate on health care, maintaining that both reopening the government and addressing health costs should happen together. “We can do both: fix health care and reopen the government. This is not an either-or thing, which Republicans are making it,” he said. “The American people don’t like it.

How long will this worthless song and dance continue?

What is this stupidity accomplishing?

You know all this can be avoided all these spineless dicks have to do is sign a continuing resolution and the government keeps going.

This whole affair like all others is nothing more that a political game played by people that have nothing to lose.

It is disgusting and most of all truly pathetic.

But who will get the blame?

Meanwhile, a separate YouGov poll of U.S. adults conducted on Oct. 2 found that 45% think Trump is “very responsible” for causing the shutdown. That’s compared to the 22% who felt the president was not at all responsible.

The figures were similar to sentiments toward congressional Republicans, where 43% of U.S. adults said they were very responsible for causing the shutdown, compared to 19% who said they were not at all responsible. Congressional Democrats fared somewhat better in the early October poll, with 36% saying they were very responsible for the shutdown, while 14% said Democrats were not at all responsible.

(desertsun.com)

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MTG Is At It Again

There have been some wild swings in the stands that MTG grapples with and they swing from batcrap crazy like chem trails to her newest thing….healthcare…..the later being a question for the rest of the GOP.

Republicans did not vote to extend the subsidies in July’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). And if they are allowed to expire at the end of 2025, KFF estimates that the average recipient’s insurance premiums will more than double, from $888 to $1,906 per year, which will result in about 4 million people losing their insurance due to unaffordability, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

This is on top of the roughly 10 million expected to lose insurance coverage due to the GOP’s massive cuts to Medicaid and other ACA marketplace spending in the Republican budget law.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) have maintained that they would not negotiate on extending the subsidies unless Democrats vote to reopen the government, thereby sacrificing their main point of leverage.

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In a blistering post on X, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said that while she was “not a fan” of the ACA and blamed it for “skyrocketing premiums,” she was “going to go against everyone on this issue because when the tax credits expire this year my own adult children’s insurance premiums for 2026 are going to DOUBLE, along with all the wonderful families and hardworking people in my district.”

“No, I’m not [toeing] the party line on this, or playing loyalty games,” Greene continued. “I’m carving my own lane. And I’m absolutely disgusted that health insurance premiums will DOUBLE if the tax credits expire this year.”

Greene lamented that “not a single Republican in leadership talked to us about this or has given us a plan to help Americans deal with their health insurance premiums DOUBLING!!!”

She then turned her attention to the tens of billions of dollars worth of military aid sent to Israel and Ukraine in recent years: “All our country does is fund foreign countries and foreign wars, and never does anything to help the American people!!!”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/mtg-scolds-gop-over-healthcare

I agreed with her on the Israel stand she took and now I find myself thinking that she has learned a thing of two since joining Congress.

Yet deep down I feel that this is just a temporary thing for her that the batcrap crazy will return and return with a vengeance.

But if it actually starts a real conversation on the subject then I say bully for her.

What say you?

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This Amazing Shutdown–Update

We are in a battle of ideologies which has been the same for decades…..this group is at fault…..that group is unyielding….blah, blah….

But as my usual style I like to keep my readers as up-to-date as I can…..

Twice they tried….twice they failed…..

In what may become a daily occurrence while the government shutdown continues, rival stopgap spending bills were voted down in the Senate on Wednesday. A Democratic proposal to fund the government until Oct. 31 failed in a 53-47 vote, with Republicans united in opposition, the BBC reports. A House-passed Republican proposal to fund the government for seven weeks also failed to advance after a 55-45 vote. Both measures, which needed 60 votes to pass, failed by the same margins Tuesday night, leading to the shutdown at 12:01am. As in Tuesday night’s vote, Democrats Sens. John Fetterman and Catherine Cortez Masto voted for the GOP proposal, as did independent Sen. Angus King, while Republican Sen. Rand Paul voted against it.

There were no signs of a breakthrough that would end the deadlock on Wednesday, the New York Times reports. Both sides blamed each other for the shutdown. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Democrats were “reflecting what the American people really want” with their push for healthcare funding, while Senate Majority Leader John Thune refused to link the issue to keeping the government open. “Everybody’s now asking the question, ‘How does this end?'” he said, per the Times. “It ends when Senate Democrats pick this bill up passed by the House of Representatives and vote for it.”

And true to form the Senate takes a break (but from where I sit they seem to always be on break) and slink off to pout and bitch.

The Senate adjourned for the day on Wednesday with no resolution on how to reopen the government. Blame was being cast on all sides on the first day of the shutdown. A vote to end the government shutdown failed earlier Wednesday, as Democrats in the Senate held firm to the party’s demands to fund health care subsidies that President Trump and other Republican leaders have refused to extend, the AP reports.

  • At issue are tax credits that have made health insurance through the Affordable Care Act more affordable for millions of people since the COVID-19 pandemic. The credits are set to expire at the end of the year if Congress doesn’t extend them—which would more than double what subsidized enrollees currently pay for health insurance premiums, according to a KFF analysis.
  • Republicans including Vice President JD Vance accused Democrats of holding government services “hostage” and said they would be willing to talk about extending the credits, but only after the shutdown ended. “Let’s reopen the government before we have our negotiation about health care policy,” Vance said Wednesday, per the Washington Post.
  • Senate Majority Leader John Thune says that his message for senators trying to cobble together a bipartisan solution for funding the government is “when you have critical mass, come and talk to me.” That means any bipartisan fix will need support from at least eight Democrats. Thune gave no sign a negotiation was happening among leaders and appeared resigned to allowing the funding bill to sit in the Senate for at least several days, the AP reports.
  • Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska confirmed Wednesday that he is part of a group of GOP senators working on a plan to extend the subsidies, Politico reports. He said that talks have been ongoing for weeks and that the group’s proposals are not being raised in negotiations to end the shutdown.
  • The New York Times reports that the administration moved to “maximize the pain” of the shutdown for Democrats on Wednesday, with officials preparing for mass layoffs and moving to halt or cancel $26 billion in funding for projects in Democratic-led states.
  • On video screens in the White House briefing room, the Trump administration played videos depicting House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in a sombrero. One of the deepfake videos, which had been shared by Trump on social media and were widely condemned as racist, began playing on monitors in the briefing room Wednesday afternoon. One deepfake video has Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer implying that Democrats seek to give free health care to immigrants in the country illegally while Jeffries, standing beside him, is depicted as wearing a Mexican sombrero and fake mustache. A second video, showing a clip of Jeffries condemning the first as “disgusting,” again depicts him that way, with an all-Trump mariachi band playing behind him.
  • Vance played down the videos at the briefing Wednesday, the Washington Post reports. “The president is joking, and we’re having a good time,” he said, adding that if Jeffries helps “reopen the government, the sombrero memes will stop.” In a post on X, Jeffries said, “JD Vance thinks we will surrender to the Republican effort to gut healthcare because of a Sombrero meme. Not happening Bro.” He shared a meme of his own superimposing an image of Vance with a fat head and curly, long hair on a video of him in the briefing room earlier.

This is where the saga ends for the day…..accusations, pouting, and bitching…..all things Congress does exceptionally well.

Stay tuned there is more to come….more antics, more accusations and more fun for us analysts.

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Not Everyone Will Be A Loser

It is official we have ourselves a shutdown…..people will work without pay, checks may be slow in coming and other services will be impacted….but there is one group that will continue doing what they do with no fear of losing income….

The first government shutdown since December 2018 is now in effect, meaning hundreds of thousands of employees are furloughed, and many more “essential” workers must clock in without pay. (The New York Times has a detailed visual breakdown here.) One group that will keep getting paid if the shutdown drags on? Congress. That’s thanks to the Constitution, which locks in congressional salaries—congressmen are currently paid $174,000, more if they’re in leadership—and keeps the money coming even if the rest of government grinds to a halt.

Not everyone on Capitol Hill is comfortable with that setup. Some lawmakers, like Democratic Sen. Andy Kim and GOP Reps. Kat Cammack and Rob Bresnahan, have publicly asked that their pay be withheld during the shutdown. But NBC News reports not everyone is following their lead. “I’m not wealthy, and I have three kids. I would basically be missing, you know, mortgage payments, rent payments, child support,” Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego told the network. The president gets paid as well during a shutdown, though President Trump donated his salary during his first term and says he intends to do so again this time around.

So the do-nothing Congress will continue to roll in the cash…..why is that?

These people have done very little substantive work in decades and it is their fault that the shutdown occurred then why should they be exempt from the consequences?

I say screw them!  Let them go without income until they find an answer to this silliness.  They should feel any pain that they inflicted on the people….they will not but it is a thought for a later day.

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Time Has Run Out

It is here the sands finally ran out of of the hourglass and the dreaded governmental shutdown is now in the record books.

With the shutdown what can we expect to see from our government….

Plunged into a government shutdown, the US is confronting a fresh cycle of uncertainty after President Trump and Congress failed to strike an agreement to keep government programs and services running by Wednesday’s deadline, the AP reports. Roughly 750,000 federal workers are expected to be furloughed, some potentially fired by the Trump administration. Many offices will be shuttered, perhaps permanently, as Trump vows to “do things that are irreversible, that are bad” as retribution. His deportation agenda is expected to run full speed ahead, while education, environmental, and other services sputter. The economic fallout is expected to ripple nationwide. “We don’t want it to shut down,” Trump said at the White House before the midnight deadline.

But the president, who met privately with congressional leadership this week, appeared unable to negotiate any deal between Democrats and Republicans to prevent that outcome. The AP previously published a look at what to expect:

  • Most Department of Homeland Security employees would continue to work, because much of the department’s workforce is connected to law enforcement or works in areas funded by user fees as opposed to Congressional appropriations.
  • Medicare and Medicaid programs and services will also continue uninterrupted, though staffing shortages could mean delays for some services, like the mailing of Medicare cards. The government has enough money to fund Medicaid for the first quarter of the next fiscal year, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. Also, eligible states will continue receiving payments from the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP.
  • The National Park Service has not said whether it will close its more than 400 sites across the US to visitors. Park officials said Tuesday afternoon that contingency plans were still being updated and would be posted to the service’s website.
  • While FEMA’s core disaster relief functions would not be affected, at least in the short term, other aspects of the agency’s work would be impacted. Some grant approvals would be paused, and no new policies could be written under the National Flood Insurance Program, halting new mortgages that require flood insurance. Still, an extended shutdown could, in a worst-case scenario, exhaust FEMA’s existing Disaster Relief Fund, which stands at about $10 billion.
  • Air traffic controllers already certified and on the job would be among the essential workers who would continue during any shutdown but their pay could be affected. A shutdown could also set back the multibillion-dollar effort to overhaul and modernize air traffic control equipment.
  • At the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than half the agency’s workers will be furloughed. Those still working include people who deal with infectious disease outbreaks and care for research animals and maintain laboratories. Federal officials said CDC would continue to monitor disease outbreaks.
  • Research and patient care at the National Institutes of Health would be upended, with about 75% of the staff furloughed. Patients currently enrolled in studies at the research-only hospital will continue to receive care during a government shutdown. Additional sick patients hoping for access to experimental therapies can’t enroll except in special circumstances, and no new studies will begin. Scientists face the prospect of costly laboratory research going to waste because most of the sprawling campus of the nation’s premier medical research agency will empty out.
  • Most of the Food and Drug Administration’s core responsibilities would continue, including responding to public health threats and managing product recalls and drug shortages. Some routine activities, including previously scheduled inspections of company manufacturing plants, will be halted. But the agency will continue to conduct inspections when it has reason to suspect a problem that could endanger consumers.
  • The State Department expects to furlough more than half of its remaining direct-hire personnel in the US, although embassies and consulates abroad will remain open and provide services to American citizens.
  • The Environmental Protection Agency says a contingency plan for a possible government shutdown would leave more than 10% of its staff in place to handle “significant agency activities” that are required by law or necessary to protect life and property.

That will give you an idea of what will continue working and what will be limited……

How long will this remain in effect?

What games will be played?

Stay tuned.

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Shutdown Two Step–Update

Tick Tok MFers!

There has been some negotiations between the two parties on saving the nation from a governmental shutdown and as the deadline draws near it is not looking too promising for a deal.

Democratic congressional leaders left the White House on Monday without a deal to avert a government shutdown, which otherwise would take effect at 12:01am Wednesday. Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer said “large differences” remain between the parties on health care funding, the New York Times reports, and Vice President JD Vance said, “I think we’re headed into a shutdown because the Democrats won’t do the right thing.” The Democrats said the private meeting, which included President Trump, was candid but didn’t make any progress toward a breakthrough.

One door was left slightly open, per Politico. Trump administration officials seemed amenable to bipartisan talks on extending health insurance subsidies that are about to expire, which Democrats want to avoid. “Let’s work on it together,” Vance said. But the GOP side said the negotiations could only take place if government remains open. “We’re seeing people not being able to get the health care they need, and the American people are crying out for some help,” Schumer said. Republicans have not made any concessions on the issue, per the Times. The White House Office of Management and Budget has advised federal agencies to prepare for potential workforce reductions if the shutdown occurs.

Let’s say the shutdown happens….who will be the winner?

This silly game does nothing for this country other than a diversion from the manure spread by both parties on a wide array of subjects.

They have until 12:01 am tomorrow to come up with a solution….who knows they may just do it for it seems they relish the idea of a last minute deal because it plays so well in the media.

This dance has become pathetic, disgusting and unnecessary….there are more important issues that deserve this much attention…..but when you have spineless political hacks in Congress this saga is the best we can expect.

What will the news be tomorrow when we all arise for our morning cup?

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Will This Save Our Country?

There is a new battle over the possibility of shutting down the government….this time it is the Dems that are considering using this game to further deal with Donny….but seriously…..would that be a good idea?

The House members took the time to pass a short term plan to avoid a governmental shut-down….

The House on Friday passed a short-term spending bill to extend government funding for seven weeks and avoid a partial government shutdown on Oct. 1, but prospects looked dimmer in the Senate, where the two parties show no signs of budging on the matter. The bill would generally continue existing funding levels through Nov. 21, reports the AP. Democratic leaders are adamantly opposed and are threatening a government shutdown if Republicans don’t let them have a say on the measure, as some Democratic support will be needed to get a bill to President Trump’s desk for his signature. The vote was 217-212.

House Speaker Mike Johnson had few votes to spare as he sought to persuade fellow Republicans to vote for the funding patch, something many in his conference have routinely opposed in past budget fights. But this time, GOP members see a chance to portray Democrats as responsible for a shutdown. “We were very careful. We put no partisan measures in this. There’s no poison pills. None of that,” Johnson said leading up to the vote. In a sign the vote could be close, Trump weighed in, urging House Republicans to pass the bill and put the burden on Democrats to oppose it. GOP leaders often need Trump’s help to win over holdouts on legislation. “Every House Republican should UNIFY, and VOTE YES!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said that in opposing the continuing resolution, Democrats were working to protect the health care of the American people. He said that with Republicans controlling the White House and both branches of Congress, “Republicans will own a government shutdown. Period. Full stop.” The House vote now sends the bill to the Senate, where Senate Majority Leader John Thune said the Senate will vote on the measure along with a dueling Democratic proposal. But neither is expected to win the 60 votes necessary to advance.

Another close vote… playing the partisan game of do as little as possible.

At least we have a shot at some sort of logic but then it has to go to the senate, where logic goes to die….

Let the game begin….

The Senate rejected competing measures on Friday to fund federal agencies for a few weeks when the new budget year begins on Oct. 1, increasing prospects for a partial government shutdown on that date. Leaders of the two parties sought to blame the other side for the standoff, reports the AP:

  • Democrats accused Republicans of not negotiating with them to address some of their priorities on health care as part of the funding measure, even though they knew some Democratic votes would be needed to get a bill to the president’s desk.
  • Republicans said Democrats were making demands that would dramatically increase spending and were not germane to the core issue of keeping agencies fully running for a short period of time while negotiations continued on a full-year spending measure.
  • “The Republican bill is a clean, nonpartisan, short-term continuing resolution to fund the government to give us time to do the full appropriations process. And the Democrat bill is the exact opposite,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune said shortly before the votes. “It’s what you might call, not a clean CR, a dirty CR—laden down with partisan policies and appeals to Democrats’ leftist base.” The AP reports the Democratic proposal would extend enhanced health insurance subsidies set to expire at the end of the year, plus reverse Medicaid cuts that were included in Republicans’ big tax breaks and spending cuts bill enacted earlier this year.

This song and dance bullshit is getting old….when will these turds start acting like the reps we elected them to be?

Donny is cheer leading for a shutdown…..

President Trump on Friday predicted the government would shut down “for a period of time” amid an impasse in the Senate between Republicans and Democrats.

Trump expressed some pessimism about the two sides reaching an agreement that can garner 60 votes in the Senate. Republicans have 53 seats in the chamber, meaning at least seven Democrats will need to support a funding measure to keep the government open.

“We’ll continue to talk to the Democrats, but I think you could very well end up with a closed country for a period of time,” Trump said. “And we’ll take care of the military. We’ll take care of Social Security. We’ll take care of the things we have to take care of.

“A lot of the things Democrats fight for … will not be able to be paid,” Trump added. “So we’ll watch and see how we do with that.”

(thehill.com)

This would fit nicely in his smear campaign and help make for a rally to drooling mental midgets a success.

Donny is hoping the shutdown occurs….he is licking his hateful lips.

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