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The longest government shutdown in modern U.S. history came to a close Wednesday night when President Trump signed a bill to fund the government through Jan. 30, ending a 43-day-long impasse.
The shutdown impacted 42 million federal food aid recipients, 670,000 furloughed federal employees and 4,000 government workers who faced layoffs. It also threatened more than $7 billion in economic damage. More
The long national nightmare can’t end before Hillary dies.
…and even then, there are a few others…
And Dems got nothing out of it.
However… there is that 0-Care cliff hitting January 1, and that is going to make things very ugly. The question is whether the GOP, which holds House, Senate, and Presidency, has the will to fix it properly or will allow 0-Care to continue to exist.
Of course that would entail overcoming the filibuster. But as we learned recently, the original filibuster stood only as long as the opposition was speaking on the Senate floor – so just let them vent for 3 days until they are done, then pass the thing.
@Left Coast Dan:
I agree completely.
Idle thought: it just occurred to me that a more appropriate word than “vent” for pols would be “outgas”.
Oh look! A few democRATz fell out of lockstep with Stupid!
A handful of democRATz voted with the Republicans and voila! the government is re-started!
To every sane-thinking person out there this should tell you that this was a democRAT organized shut-down yet somehow democRAT “leaders” still INSIST it was a Republican shut-down!
Compete Insanity!
And after Hillary dies, Uncle Al, Fat Ladies all over the world have to sing. And then the Democrat Party has to die, followed by more Fat Ladies singing…
GM – It’ll most likely be fat ladies with nicotine covered, whiskey embalmed vocal cords growling with gravely voices!
42 million on food assistance might be a problem in itself. No?
If all 13 appropriations bills can get passed through both Houses and Trump get them signed before time runs out in January, we will not need another CR because we will basically have a budget, so the Leftists can not shut the Government down again unless the Radical Ones try to physically try to blow up the Capital Building and the White House.
Re-establish benefits AFTER they are re-qualified! This is the opportunity to scrub the roster and of deadbeats, dead people and people who are scamming the system, especially the ones getting double benefits by signing up twice! We won’t be able to completely eliminate fraud, but we can put a good sized dent in it!
I haven’t seen any indication that the lobbyists have had time to work on writing the required appropriations bills. Surely, nobody is suggesting their Congressman or a Committee has put any work into these?