Update on potential government shutdown scheduled to happen this Friday: House is expecting the text of a stopgap bill to prevent government shutdown to come in today.
Sources say it will probably stave off the threat until the 2nd or 3rd week of January, and that they’ll probably put it up to a vote tomorrow.
The thing with these shutdown games is that this whole administration so far, Republicans have been refusing to allow the Dems to write their own spending bills, they are forced to simply extend the old budget to prevent a shutdown. We’re 11 months into Biden’s administration and we are still using a budget Trump wrote. The first opprotunity the Dems had to write their own budget was October (the beginning of fiscal year 2022) and that’s why all these games with edging a shutdown began around that time, but they’ve been cockblocked this entire time.
That’s why Republicans are disatisfied with the January date and want the extention to continue into February or March. It keeps the country on Trump’s budget longer. It makes life agonizing for Congress Dems, who are already fighting the Democrat Civil War. It stops Democrats from implementing spending bills. Fighting over things like the budget or the NDAA is becoming a favorite Republican tactic because every day Congress wastes fighting over trivial shit like this is a day Congress isn’t working on passing BBB.
Speaking of BBB: Schumer wants to have the House vote on BBB on December 13th. That’s not gonna stick.