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Speaker Johnson on GOP plan to avert government shutdown: ‘Trust us’

Spoiler: I do not trust them even a tiny bit.

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Kevin McCarthy ousted

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Americans are nine days away from experiencing yet another government shutdown. Former President Donald Trump, who led a 35-day shutdown in 2019, is suggesting Republicans should let it happen again.

On Wednesday night, Trump took to his social media site Truth Social to offer advice to Republican lawmakers. If Congress does reach an agreement on funding before September 30, the federal government will shut down — and with that deadline just nine days away, the GOP has yet to find a viable solution to keep the government funded.

Trump, who was responsible for the longest government shutdown in US history, urged Republicans to make the most of the "very important deadline" to keep the government funded.

"Republicans in Congress can and must defund all aspects of Crooked Joe Biden's weaponized Government that refuses to close the Border, and treats half the Country as Enemies of the State," Trump posted on his site. "This is also the last chance to defund these political prosecutions against me and other Patriots. They failed on the debt limit, but they must not fail now. Use the power of the purse and defend the Country!"

With regards to the debt limit, Trump is referring to the concessions Republicans had to make with Democrats in order to raise the limit and ensure the government could continue covering its spending obligations. They did not get the spending cuts they had hoped to achieve within that bill, which is why Trump is urging them to hold the line on government funding.

However, Republicans cannot agree amongst themselves on what those spending cuts should look like. Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday had to pull a vote on a group of conservative lawmakers' continuing resolution that would keep the government funded through October 31 because not enough members of his party supported the legislation.

After failing to corral his party around the conservatives' resolution, McCarthy is reportedly seeking to pass a funding bill that would include deeper spending cuts alongside an immigration package that Democrats are likely to vote against — meaning he would need conservative holdouts to hop on board. If they don't, McCarthy would have to appease some Democratic lawmakers to avoid a government shutdown — and GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz said that could cost McCarthy his title as Speaker.

"If Speaker McCarthy relies on Democrats to pass a continuing resolution, I would call the Capitol moving truck to his office pretty soon because my expectation would be he'd be out of the speaker's office quite promptly," Gaetz told CNN.

These party squabbles are having lawmakers on both sides of the aisle frustrated. "It's yet another reminder that in both houses, a small group of hard-right Republicans are dead set to grind the gears of government to a halt," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said.

A government shutdown would mean thousands of government employees furloughed, which could lead to processing delays for programs Americans rely on like Social Security and SNAP. The clock is ticking to see if Congress can avoid that outcome — and things aren't looking good.

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The Internet keeps getting weaker,there's a high possibility of the government shutting it out again

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9/30/22

Putin signed two decrees that annex four regions of the Ukraine, although even with the invasion Russia does not control them fully militarily. From now, Russia will claim it's defending its own territory. As far as I can tell, no one else is recognizing this, even China (although that can change). In response, the Ukraine announced it would bid for a fast-track into joining NATO, and the US announced a new package of sanctions. A rocket strike hit a civilian convoy, killing at least 25.

This is an editorial from me, not news: If the Ukraine joins NATO, that is a big, massive deal. The Cold War was pretty much everyone trying very hard for the USSR and NATO not to come into direct combat, so if a country that is in active military engagement with Russia joins, well... there's a possibility what the world's been avoiding for decades may come to fruition. Russia's already been vaguely threatening to use nuclear weapons, and everything could become even more ramped up from there.

The Senate passed a bill that would temporarily halt a shutdown through to December. One of the holdups was Senate Manchin (D-WV), who wanted to add an energy provision as a prerequisite for his support, but that upset everyone so he took it off the table. The bill also allocates $12.3B for the Ukraine.

Judge Cannon, who is overseeing the DOJ/Trump trial, says Trump does not have to clarify to the special master whether his documents were planted or declassified.

Six states sued the Biden administration's plan to forgive some of the student debt, stating he does not have the authority to do that. There were many people angry when Biden announced the $10K-$20K forgiveness, asking why the burden had to fall on the taxpayer. (The Congressional Budget Office said it would cost about $400B.) Also in some states, debt relief is considered taxable income so the forgiveness plan triggered state taxes ranging from about $300-$1100, depending where you live.

Florida is assessing the damage from Hurricane Ian, restoring power, and looking for survivors/the dead. There are 21 confirmed deaths, and 18-20 Cuban migrants went missing on their boat. Ian will hit South Carolina very soon, and its time over the Atlantic increased its power from a tropical storm back up to a category 1.

Thai Prime Minister Prayuth will remain in office after a constitutional court ruled he did not exceed term limits. Prayuth stepped down temporarily after protests that he had been in power too long (since 2014), but the counterargument was his term actually started in 2017 when the new constitution came in.

A suicide bomber hit an institute in Kabul where students were preparing for exams, killing 19-20.

1) Moscow Times, Reuters, BBC, Al Jazeera 3) NYT 4) Washington Post 5) Bloomberg, KY3 6) Tampa Bay, CBS, Axios 7) WSJ 8) Al Jazeera

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Before we can start actually working on the FY2025 budget, the House must get their leadership in order, since Representative Kay Granger (R-TX) stepped down as chair right after the last of the FY2024 bills passed. Representative Tom Cole (R-OK) faces no opposition to assume the role.

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Biden signed budget bill protecting US from shutdown

US President Joe Biden signed into law a $1.2-trillion budget bill on Saturday to fund the US government through the fiscal year starting six months ago and avert a partial shutdown, The New York Times reported.

“The bipartisan funding bill I just signed keeps the government open, invests in the American people, and strengthens our economy and national security.”

The bill passed the Senate by a vote of 74 to 24 after the deadline for funding government agencies expired. However, shortly after the deadline expired, the White House sent out a notice announcing that the Office of Management and Budget had stopped preparing for a shutdown because there was a high degree of confidence that Congress would pass the bill and the President would sign it into law on Saturday.

Because obligations of federal funds are incurred and tracked on a daily basis, agencies will not shut down and may continue their normal operations.

Read more HERE

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House conservative demands stall efforts to avert shutdown | The Hill

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We need to fix our nation before we find any foreign entities

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U.S. government avoids shutdown

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A feud over spending cuts between hardline and centrist Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives raises the risk that the federal government will suffer its fourth shutdown in a decade this fall.

Members of the hardline House Freedom Caucus are pushing to cut spending to a fiscal 2022 level of $1.47 trillion, $120 billion less than President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy agreed to in their May debt ceiling compromise.

With Republicans also seeking higher spending on defense, veterans benefits and border security, analysts say the hardline target would mean cuts of up to 25% in areas such as agriculture, infrastructure, science, commerce, water and energy, and healthcare.

Centrists, who call themselves "governing" Republicans, say their hardline colleagues are ignoring the fact that their priorities are rejected by Democrats who control the Senate and White House, and that spending will wind up near the level agreed by McCarthy and Biden anyway.

The result is a major headache for centrist Republicans from swing districts that Biden won in 2020 and others with constituents in the firing line of hardline spending targets.

"The reductions are so deep," said Representative Don Bacon, a centrist Republican from Nebraska. "They want to make everything a root canal."

Hardliners view the 2024 fiscal year that begins on Oct. 1 as a test of Republican resolve to reduce the federal debt and move on to reform social programs including Medicare and Social Security.

"I don't fault any individual member for raising concerns and wanting to make sure that the bill is right for them and for their district," said Representative Ben Cline, who belongs to the Freedom Caucus, the conservative Republican Study Committee and the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus.

"What there has to be is an understanding that for there to be 218 Republican votes, the spending needs to be in line with pre-COVID levels rather than the debt-limit agreement."

One significant source of frustration is hardline demands for cuts to bills that have already been vetted by the 61-member House Appropriations Committee.

"We're not, willy-nilly, just trying to give money away. We're trying to focus and prioritize," said Representative David Joyce, a member of the appropriations committee who heads the 42-member centrist Republican Governance Group.

With Democrats opposed to hardline proposals, McCarthy can afford to lose no more than four Republican votes if he hopes to pass all 12 appropriations bills before funding expires on Sept. 30.

"I do not know how they get themselves out of this jam," said William Hoagland, a former Senate Republican budget director now at the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank.

TRICKY PATH

When the House returns from summer recess on Sept. 12, lawmakers will have 12 days to complete their bills and hammer out compromise legislation with the Senate or risk a partial government shutdown.

McCarthy acknowledged last week they may have to resort to a stopgap funding bill, known as a "continuing resolution," or CR, to keep federal agencies open.

That option could be complicated by hardline demands that it include some of former President Donald Trump's border policies, which Democrats reject.

Some House Republicans say the challenges are similar to disagreements McCarthy has overcome on other major legislation, including an April Republican debt ceiling bill that cemented his negotiating position in talks with Biden.

"The more appropriations bills we can get across the finish line, the more we'll have the leverage we need to negotiate a good deal with the Senate," said Representative Dusty Johnson, who chairs the Main Street Caucus, whose members describe themselves as "pragmatic conservatives".

Failure would mean another costly government shutdown starting in October, which would be the fourth in a decade.

SHUTDOWN RISK

House Freedom Caucus members say a shutdown could be necessary to achieve their objectives.

"It's not something that the members of the Freedom Caucus generally wish for," said Representative Scott Perry, who chairs the group of roughly three dozen conservatives.

"But we also understand that very little happens in Washington that's difficult, without someone or something forcing it to happen," he told Reuters.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in Congress, said last week that Republicans will be to blame for any new shutdown "if the House decides to go in a partisan direction."

Disputes over funding and policy have shut down the federal government three times in the past decade: once in 2013 over healthcare spending and twice in 2018 over immigration. A 35-day shutdown that began in December 2018 and ran into January 2019 cost the economy 0.02% of GDP, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

This time, the slim 222-212 House Republican majority could pay a political price. A shutdown would disrupt the lives of Americans barely a year before the 2024 election, when Republicans must defend 18 House seats in districts that Biden won in 2020.

McCarthy could face the prospect of having to resort to a CR that requires bipartisan support to pass, neutralizing the hardliners, analysts said.

That could endanger McCarthy's speakership under a deal he struck allowing a single lawmaker to move for his dismissal.

Would the House Freedom Caucus end McCarthy's reign over a CR?

"I wouldn't go that far," Perry said. "That's a final option. We want to work with the leadership. We want to work with Kevin, and we think that we can."

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Race Against Time: Congress Grapples with Spending Deal to Avert Government Shutdown

https://headlinehorizon.com/Politics/House/1271

Congress is under pressure to reach a spending deal before Nov. 17 to avoid a government shutdown. House Republicans and Democrats clash over a 'clean' extension or a 'laddered' approach to funding. The article explores the divisions and challenges faced by lawmakers.

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Republicans Continue To Attack Women

Another attack against women but many women continue to vote for them. Was Trump correct regarding women like when men grab their xxxx?

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Need I say more.. that’s how shady Republicans have become, unethical, untruth acts, etc.. full of BS

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