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Post by Prrple on Mar 23, 2018 12:20:06 GMT -5
Just recanted the veto threat. Ah, but did he sign yet? I am waiting to see after this morning. |
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Post by christina on Mar 23, 2018 14:12:47 GMT -5
Good thing I kept working
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Post by Mermaid on Mar 23, 2018 14:26:14 GMT -5
Good thing I kept working I thought about it and you can have the afternoon off. It has to be 5:00 p.m. somewhere.  |
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Post by pinka7 on Mar 25, 2018 16:20:06 GMT -5
Out of curiosity does the new budget prevent shutdown threats at the end of September this year?
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Post by acttwo on Mar 25, 2018 23:10:53 GMT -5
Out of curiosity does the new budget prevent shutdown threats at the end of September this year? Oh, heck, that would take all the "fun" out of it. All you current Feds are in my prayers! |
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Post by Prrple on Mar 26, 2018 11:12:05 GMT -5
Out of curiosity does the new budget prevent shutdown threats at the end of September this year? No, it does not. |
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Post by nylawyer on Mar 27, 2018 16:48:25 GMT -5
Out of curiosity does the new budget prevent shutdown threats at the end of September this year? I'd expect the election will take that threat away for at least a couple of months, I would expect a relatively low drama CR sometime before the end of September. |
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Post by pinka7 on Mar 27, 2018 20:03:31 GMT -5
Thanks everyone that is what I thought but wanted to double check. My anniversary is right around that time so it makes planning trips a wee bit stressful.
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Post by nylawyer on Apr 29, 2018 8:44:20 GMT -5
It's hard to imagine they won't get a CR done to push it past the election. First of all, which Congressman wants to be stuck in DC legislating a month before the election while their opponent is campaigning back home?
Second, a shut down is such a monkey wrench in the political dynamic. Since the Republicans nominally control the government, they could well get blamed for "closing" it (I use quotation marks because given how much remains open I think closing isn't exactly the right word- it's more like showing up at Disney and seeing the sign at the entrance that Space Mountain, Pirates of the Caribbean and the Country Bear Jamboree are closed). Otoh, since the Democrats expect and project to do well, do they really want to see a new variable thrown into the mix?
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Post by Pixie on Apr 29, 2018 8:45:28 GMT -5
Yup, just as I suspected... “Trump threatens government shutdown in September if no funding for wall U.S. President Donald on Saturday threatened to shut down the federal government in September if Congress did not provide more funding to build a wall on the border with Mexico. “That wall has started, we have 1.6 billion (dollars),” Trump said at a campaign rally in Washington, Michigan. “We come up again on September 28th and if we don’t get border security we will have no choice, we will close down the country because we need border security.”Trump made a similar threat in March to push for changes in immigration law that he says would prevent criminals from entering the country. The government briefly shut down in January over immigration.” www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-government/trump-threatens-government-shutdown-in-september-if-no-funding-for-wall-idUSKBN1I0018 This might be the basis for a question on the LBMT. |
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Post by nylawyer on Apr 30, 2018 6:41:54 GMT -5
It's hard to imagine they won't get a CR done to push it past the election. First of all, which Congressman wants to be stuck in DC legislating a month before the election while their opponent is campaigning back home? Second, a shut down is such a monkey wrench in the political dynamic. Since the Republicans nominally control the government, they could well get blamed for "closing" it (I use quotation marks because given how much remains open I think closing isn't exactly the right word- it's more like showing up at Disney and seeing the sign at the entrance that Space Mountain, Pirates of the Caribbean and the Country Bear Jamboree are closed). Otoh, since the Democrats expect and project to do well, do they really want to see a new variable thrown into the mix? It is an interesting dynamic... The President says he will let appropriations lapse if he doesn’t get what he wants. I agree he and the Republican Party would most likely get the blame if there was another government shutdown right before the election. It seems all the Democrats have to do is intentionally not give him what he wants, watch him “close the country” just as he promised, and then watch him and the republicans spiral into the political abyss and lose an avalanche of seats in the house and senate. The only way they can survive is if they were able to get a CR through. Except that Democrats and Republicans are not all the same- there are plenty of Democrats running in states/districts that might feel that shutting the government down over immigration might hurt them with voters but know that funding it will kill them with the advocacy groups that they rely on for funding and get out the vote operations. I still say a CR gets passed. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2018 16:59:44 GMT -5
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Post by nylawyer on Aug 29, 2018 17:17:28 GMT -5
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Post by Pixie on Aug 29, 2018 18:29:35 GMT -5
This all makes me more weary than I was before.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2018 19:17:29 GMT -5
Well, at least we have an election 5 weeks after the new fiscal starts. (November 6th).
This may temper either the onset or the duration of any impending shutdown. I have not taken a poll but, I believe our citizens do not like government shutdowns regardless of their political affiliation. If a certain individual starts to feel the heat, and blame, for it (right before the election) a shutdown might not happen. Or if it does, probably won't last long. imvho.
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Post by 2rvrrun on Aug 29, 2018 21:45:08 GMT -5
Again?  So easy to become complacent, that will show me. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2018 22:00:31 GMT -5
Its still up in the air... www.thefiscaltimes.com/2018/08/27/Trump-Told-Republicans-He-Won-t-Shut-Down-Government-Will-He-Keep-Promise“Time is one issue. “[T]here are still only 11 legislative days left in September and Congress as a whole isn’t close to completing the work it has to do on all the 2019 spending bills to get them signed by the president before the government turns into a pumpkin at midnight September 30,” Collender writes. But Trumpian power politics are the main reason Collender says the chances that the president provokes a shutdown will likely rise as the deadline approaches: “If, as seems likely, Congress again refuses to appropriate the billions he wants for his wall, Trump will be handed a relatively easy way to show that he’s in charge; to look tough on immigration, the most important issue he has ridden since the day he announced his candidacy; and to reconfirm his dealmaking abilities.”” |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2018 14:17:42 GMT -5
President Trump has signed into law an appropriations bill covering the VA and related agencies, the legislative branch, the Energy Department, and several components of Interior and Defense including the Army Corps of Engineers. Those agencies are now funded through the new budget year, fiscal 2019, and do not face the threat of a partial shutdown from a funding lapse. Meanwhile the House is due to take up this week a second bill—already passed by the Senate—that would fund the remainder of DoD, along with Labor, Education, most of HHS, SSA, and related agencies. That bill if passed similarly would provide full-year funding for those agencies while also extending funding, generally at current levels, through December 7 for agencies not in one of those two bills. A third combined bill, still in a House-Senate conference, would cover the rest of Interior along with financial regulatory agencies, central agencies such as OPM, GSA, OMB and FLRA, the IRS, Agriculture, Transportation, HUD and related agencies. That measure further will serve as the vehicle for a decision on a federal pay raise for January. Indications so far are that a 1.9 percent raise advocated by the Senate stands a good chance of acceptance but that decision won’t be finalized until the conference concludes. www.fedweek.com/fedweek/some-agencies-protected-most-not-as-shutdown-deadline-approaches |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2018 15:34:34 GMT -5
Any idea if Fed Employees still get paid if DOI (who processes our payroll) is shutdown?
Per the WashPo:
If there is no agreement by the end of next week, funding will run out for the Homeland Security Department and other agencies including the Justice, Interior and Agriculture departments.
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