Posted on 02/08/2018 8:09:30 PM PST by Innovative
Senate leaders reached a two-year budget deal, but Sen. Rand Paul is holding up a Senate vote. Congress must pass a deal before midnight to avoid a shutdown.
The government will shut down. The Senate is in recess until 12:01 a.m.
The Senate has gone into recess until 12:01 a.m. ET, which means the government will shut down at midnight. The next procedural vote to advance the budget deal will not happen before 1 a.m. ET.
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I thought they shut the government down a little early - like 6 hours ago (5 Eastern).
Continuing Resolutions are Sedition....
I am with Rand on this one. Time t get the house in order & get back to regular order.
Out of control spending is baked into the system.
45 million people on food stamps!
Where is Budget Boffin PRyno?
We have too much government.
Ok fine.
Shut it down, then leave town.
Make no difference to me.
all these pundits who says shutdowns make conservatives look bad... who cares!
shut it down POTUS!!!
Latest update:
What we know now
The next vote is at 1 a.m. ET. Paul will be allowed to speak again for an hour.
Expect the final passage to happen after Paul’s remarks.
The bill then goes to the House, where a vote will happen between 4 a.m. ET and 6 a.m. ET.
Lawmakers think the shutdown could be over before most federal workers wake up tomorrow morning.
Stop soending increases or leave office!!
This bill doesn’t stick us with DACA. I’m tempted to say to just let it pass so we can remove the DACA-bastards out of the country and out of the equation entirely.
Rand paul our new leader!!
“Lawmakers think the shutdown could be over before most federal workers wake up tomorrow morning.”
They work all night for the fedgov workers.
They wouldn’t do it for people like me.
Shut it down and leave it down.
45 million people on food stamps!
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that an improvement, I think 7 million have dropped off so far, must be finding jobs
Lets keep seeing the number go down
Obama was the food stamp president
President Trump will be the jobs president
yup - Rand is correct, cut the budget 15% and we run a surplus.
Anyone want to argue the Feds cannot cut 15% of their costs ?
I admire Rand Paul for standing on his principles of fiscal sanity and small government.
He won’t survive though. We live in a country whose monetary system is based on printed, unbacked money and massive debt. That means there is always more money for government and social engineering schemes. Its far too easy for any politician to simply agree to more spending and debt for bread and circuses.
Rand Paul & Don Quixote have a lot in common.
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