A government shutdown increasingly looks inevitable as GOP opponents of a stopgap in the Senate seek to drag out the process ahead of a midnight Sunday deadline.   Opponents of the Senate stop…

A government shutdown increasingly looks inevitable as GOP opponents of a stopgap in the Senate seek to drag out the process ahead of a midnight Sunday deadline.

Opponents of the Senate stopgap, which is backed by leaders in both parties, are delaying a vote to give the House a chance to pass its own continuing resolution to fund government.

Senate conservatives want to give Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) more leverage to negotiate spending cuts and changes to immigration policy, leverage that would diminish if the Senate jams the House by moving first and passing a relatively clean stopgap.

It’s unclear if House Republicans will be able to rally around their own funding measure or if McCarthy would put the Senate bill up for a vote in the House once it passes the upper chamber.

  • MicroWave@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    341·
    1 year ago

    A shutdown is not good, regardless of how you feel about these politicians. Literally millions of federal employees would be without their paychecks

    A shutdown that would halt pay for military families and government workers comes at a particularly precarious time for many households that are already struggling financially.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/government-shutdown-federal-workers-lose-pay-military-rcna116891

    • UristMcHolland@lemmy.world
      101·
      1 year ago

      I was in Army basic training during the last government shutdown. What that meant for us was no busses to take us to ranges for training. No hot meals in the defac (cafeteria). Extremely limited ammunition for training. So we matched miles upon miles all over the base to get where we needed to go, pretended we had the ammo for the exercise and then we would march home and eat an MRE (meal ready to eat). 2 or 3 MREs a day for about 2 weeks straight. Shit sucked.

      • GreenMario@lemm.ee
        110·
        1 year ago

        And most of you voted Republican afterwards.

        You get what you fuckin deserve!

        • Nobsi@feddit.de
          8·
          1 year ago

          How the fuck do you think you can say that? Youre not on his base. Youre not even in the force.
          Get back into your basement and argue with others about what OS is best.

    • Wahots@pawb.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      It also has unintended effects on the nonfederal workforce too. Losing even more FAA staff cannot be good in addition to everything else the goverment orchestrates, funds, or builds. A long shutdown might affect the border, getting passports, student loans, rural hospitals that depend on Medicare funding, SNAP, etc…