The government shutdown overnight for the first time since… Donald Trump’s last term. Elect rapist clowns, you get this circus. Republicans have control of the presidency, the House of Representatives (219-213) and the Senate (53-47). Donald Trump currently has a 43% approval rating and his authoritarian “policies” are widely unpopular. Republicans are simply incompetent, too incompetent to challenge a weak, unpopular, batsh-t crazy president. Too incompetent to actually run a functioning government.
The US government shut down on Wednesday, after congressional Democrats refused to support a Republican plan to extend funding for federal departments unless they won a series of concessions centered on healthcare.
The GOP, which controls the Senate and the House of Representatives, repudiated their demands, setting off a legislative scramble that lasted into the hours before funding lapsed at midnight, when the Senate failed to advance both parties’ bills to keep funding going.
The shutdown is the first since a 35-day closure that began in December 2018 and extended into the new year, during Trump’s first term. It comes as Democrats look to regain their footing with voters, who re-elected Trump last year and relegated them to the minority in both chambers of Congress.
“Republicans are plunging America into a shutdown, rejecting bipartisan talks, pushing a partisan bill and risking America’s healthcare,” top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer said on Tuesday evening, as it became clear a shutdown was inevitable.
Last month, House Republicans passed a bill that would fund the government through 21 November, but it requires the support of some Democrats to clear the 60-vote threshold for advancement in the Senate. It failed to gain that support in votes held late on Tuesday, while Republicans also blocked a Democratic proposal to continue funding through October while also making an array of policy changes.
“Far-left interest groups and far-left Democrat members wanted to show down with the president, and so Senate Democrats have sacrificed the American people to Democrats’ partisan interests,” Senate majority leader John Thune said.
Yeah… again, Republicans have the majority in both chambers of Congress. It’s not Democrats’ fault that the Senate Majority Leader and Speaker of the House can’t whip votes to save their lives. If they want Senate Democrats to vote for any kind of Continuing Resolution, the Republicans have to make some concessions. That’s the way the bipartisan government works. In any case, the White House Office of Management and Budget blasted out an unhinged email across all agencies, blaming the shutdown on Democrats entirely. Morons.
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