Six-month deal reached to avoid government shutdown, aides say

national journal ^ | 7-31-12 | Katy O'Donnell

[TurboZamboni]

The House will have just eight legislative workdays in September, and at least one of them will now be spent taking up a stopgap spending bill to fund the government past the election and through what is expected to be an extraordinarily hectic lame-duck session.

The chamber will not take up a continuing resolution bill this week, according to aides, but House and Senate leaders are expected to announce as early as Tuesday afternoon that they have reached an informal agreement to take up a roughly six-month continuing resolution when they return from the August recess.

[Fester Chugabrew]

shut it down already

[mosaicwolf]

Unfortunately the Feds going bankrupt is meaningless. We as citizens will go bankrupt. The Feds will just keep printing money to win elections and will will go bankrupt through inflation.

[TurboZamboni]

Do we really still need troops everywhere we have them now? ...in addition to funding Syrian rebels (whoever they are)like McCain wants to do?

[G Larry]

Those kind of “realistic” cuts will never happen under sequestration.
Those will be cuts made in some long, drawn out negotiations.
That is a “policy” issue, and not to be addressed in a short term budget crisis.

[TurboZamboni]

RE: defunding Obamacare-

When the press asked Boehner if he would be heeding the advise of the clear majority of the members of his own caucus, the bravado faded to a sniveling whimper.

Boehner equivocated, and then, out of the blue, he said: “Our goal would be to make sure the government is funded and any political talk of a government shutdown is put to rest.”

[TurboZamboni]

White House: Automatic cuts ‘highly destructive’
By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated PressAssociated Press
Posted: 07/31/2012 02:51:20 PM CDT
July 31, 2012 7:51 PM GMTUpdated: 07/31/2012 02:51:20 PM CDT

WASHINGTON—The White House is telling agency officials to “continue normal spending and operations” even as they face what the administration is calling “highly destructive” across-the-board budget cuts in January.

http://www.twincities.com/national/ci_21201015/white-house-automatic-cuts-highly-destructive

we’re doomed if they cut!!

[ArrogantBustard]

ALL gubmint programs need cutting. ALL have pork.

Some government programs need eliminating; they are ALL pork and unconstitutional as well.

Defense and Intelligence have already been cut disastrously low, while urban vote buying (AKA "welfare") has dramatically increased over the last 3 years.

[TurboZamboni]

Even with a FY 2007 level budget, the United States will still spend more on defense than the next 17 nations combined, most of whom are our allies, and three times more than the Chinese. We would still have more ships than the next 11 navies in the world combined, more manned and unmanned aircraft than any other nation, and a total ground force (active duty and reserve) of 1.5 million highly-trained people.