Posted on 09/30/2013 11:07:46 PM PDT by Nachum
The federal government shut down for the first time in 17 years last night.
Lawmakers in the Democrat-controlled Senate and Republican-controlled Congress failed to pass a budget allowing for the federal government to continue to be funded as it headed into the new fiscal year at midnight.
Late night negotiations ended in deadlock after the Senate Democrats refused to consider any version of the budget that included changes to President Obama's signature health care law.
This lack of compromise means that nearly a million federal workers will go on unpaid leave until the two legislative bodies come to an agreement.
As the zero-hour drew closer on Monday, with other avenues exhausted, the White House's Office of Management and Budget told federal agencies that they 'should now execute plans for an orderly shutdown due to the absence of appropriations.'
House Republican leaders on the Rules Committee had discussed the procedures for both parties to appoint 'conferees' – negotiating representatives – for a joint House-Senate conference committee empowered to hash out a compromise of the budget battle that has consumed Washington for days.
The House GOP scrambled all day to avoid being the party without a chair when the shutdown music stops and the federal government moves to a new fiscal year without money to spend.
Republicans have been insisting that a Continuing Resolution funding the federal government – a 'CR,' in Capitol Hill-speak – must include language defunding, delaying or otherwise changing the Affordable Care Act, President Obama's signature health care legislation.
Democratic Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid had said hours earlier that House GOP members had 'lost their minds.' That barb followed the House's decision to send its third such budget proposal to the Senate – one that everyone in Washington understood would be dead on arrival.
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“But I’m sure Obama will negate it all with an executive order that restores back pay and deny our bloated budget the much-needed savings.”
If he does he should be executed for treason~!
Time to thin the herd....
Ill be happy when I see FORECLOSURE signs all over the DC burbs!
Good, they will learn how to eat at cheap restaurants, buy a smaller home, live without like the rest of us peasants.... Let them eat cake.
I agree, the question is why the Dems wouldn’t fund the government after the House fulfilled its Constitutional duty.
But the delay of the individual mandate would merely save the uninsured a $95 fee in exchange for being able to jump into the system if they ever did get sick, and those whose employers stop offering insurance could still get it on an exchange.
I am GLAD zero.s gubmint is shut down...all a bunch of crooks anyway.....
IN other words, government ? the American people just does not give a crap ( that’s horse dukie for your educational purposes ) about the government and what the media says.
at least a couple hundred thousand federal government employees need to be furloughed permanenetly as far as I’m concerned.
How does this compare to the millions without work/pay that the gov has created in the private sector?
This is brilliant. Wish I’d created it.
Let government and it’s hangers-on experience some uncertainty for a change
Let the Commies see how it feels to NOT get paid.
Keep it shut down.
Maybe they’ll go home, read a book, and learn a trade.
Everyone will get paid even if it is retroactive.
Hmmm. Lotta hate in this thread. The broad-brush swipes at all federal employees are especially disappointing to this conservative. Like all broad brushes, the swipes are messy, inaccurate, and unfair. Some of us work very hard for a mission. In my case, it’s overseeing the testing of new aircraft and amphibious systems before they get dumped on the warfighters. Not a mission you support? Why not?
And for the record, no bill has been passed by either house that repays us civilian employees for time on furlough. You know-the same way we lost pay during the Sequestration-induced furloughs. No mention has been made of reducing our work commensurate with work time available. Just the pay is reduced.
TC
ok.
> O H M Y G O D!
Can it be permanent?
Will Cupcake have to vacate the desecrated White Hut and go home?
He’s hardly ever at the WH; he has Jarrett running her payback show while he’s being paid to hit golf balls on the links
The GOP needs to show that the reason that there is a shutdown is because the DemoRats have been spending their money like a drunken sailor for the past 5 years to pay for all entitlement programs that we the people have had to slave for and that the coffers have run dry because we can’t keep up (their thirst is never satisfied) and that they’re trying to kill the Obamacare trainwreck. Sure a lot of fat unemployed lazy video game playing college grad entitlees are going to be mad about it when they don’t get their freebies. They’ll mull over it or awhile about but maybe they’ll get the message, clean up their act, try to find some work...oh, and possibly do their homework before voting for a president just because he’s PC and has more “swagger” next time...
> Let government and it’s hangers-on experience some uncertainty for a change
Like we’ve had to the past 5 years...
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