Preparations for a shutdown have already begun across the country. One week before funding for the federal government runs out on September 30th at midnight. The White House Office of management and budget has already reached out to leaders of federal agencies to coordinate with them. About what they and their staff can expect if they are forced to shut down. Next week. Like the last time the government shutdown, which lasted for 35 days from the tail end of 2018, until the first weeks of the 2019. Millions of americans lives will be disrupted as various federal services will be shuttered, and work will be followed, and workers will be furloughed, and wont be paid for the direction of the shutdown. Workers who are considered essential, like Border Patrol agents, federal law enforcement, and air Traffic Controllers, will continue working. But also will not be paid until congress results the dispute. Federal employees will be eligible to be receiving back pay, but an impending shutdown p
That clause gives congress what People Markham and they referred to as the power of the purse. The power not held by other of the executive branches according to the constitution. A providing fence keeping the government running and functioning is one of the things of congress. And they cant even agree what to get started on getting that. Right letting the government agree on that bill, let alone a strategy for the house is proven to be a challenge. Signs that things were going well. Indicate most apparent on thursday. When a motion to begin a debate on the Defense Funding Bill fails for the second time this. Week prompting Republican Leadership sent members, Home Congress now only has about five days left to take action because members are off tomorrow on monday for the jewish holiday of the occupier, the speaker of the house, told reporters yesterday that he believes that congress is making progress his congress is making progress in its negotiations, and it anticipates resumed votin
through this a number of times over the last 10 or 12 years this is as bad as it s gotten and people should be very concerned about this because i don t see either side letting up. there s not as much cushion here. i would imagine markets start to get concerned earlier about a debt limit crisis than it would about a government funding crisis. i know people are just starting to wake up to this, but this is a very serious issue. i think you re right. really quickly, we don t have a lot of time but what exactly are republicans demanding to raise the debt limit? what do they want? they don t have a price. they want democrats to use the fast track reconciliation process, a 50-vote threshold to raise it. chuck schumer says that would be difficult and convoluted and risky, but they can do it that way and i m not clear why it would be difficult, convoluted and risky. republicans have dug in because they feel democrats are not
treasury is fuzzy about it. they said october or november. republicans say if the democrats move ahead with this huge $3.5 trillion package, we don t want anything to do with this debt. also they ve complained about what happened in the rescue plan, $1.9 trillion package democrats enacted. they say democrats, you spend all this money, you go pay for it. you go raise the debt ceiling with democratic votes. if they try to if democrats try to attach the increase to keep the government open and government runs out of money to operate government agencies running out of money on september 30th, we could have a real showdown. not only a debt crisis, which we had in 2011 which caused the united states to get credit downgraded for first time in crisis and government funding crisis. this could be the worst of both worlds. this is very, very serious, high
secular world is tryingth to tae christ out of christmas. if you polls show that younger people, millennials, christmas is becoming a cultural holiday than a religious holiday. recent poll on the importance of religion, 51% of americans, 52% of christians saying it is important, others think it is only fairly important. how dono you avoid losing the reason for the christmas holiday? there is no doubt christmas is becoming more secularized. that cannot diminish the importance of the event today. 2,000 years ago the whole world was fixated on another government funding crisis, this time it was in rome. as c a result the emperor issued to some people back to their home towns to register for taxation. little did that emperor know that that would cause a young jewish couple he had never meant to travel to a dusty little