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Senate Democrats Vote to Shutdown Federal Government
Working late into the night, the US Senate has rejected advancing a bill that would fund the federal government for the next 30 days. That means the government will technically shut down at midnight Eastern Time.
Senate Democratic leadership opposed the bill in an attempt to force Republicans to accept their terms on DACA. Sixty votes were needed for passage, but 48 senators voted against it.
Four Republicans — Jeff Flake, Lindsey Graham, Mike Lee, and Rand Paul — voted against advancing the continuing resolution. Five Democrats — Joe Donnelly, Heidi Heitkamp, Doug Jones, Joe Manchin, and Claire McCaskill — broke with their party and voted for the bill. Arizona Senator John McCain was absent for health reasons.
“This is completely unfair and uncompassionate for my Democratic colleagues to filibuster government funding, harm our troops, and jeopardize health coverage for nine million children because extreme elements of their base want illegal immigration to crowd out every other priority,” Senate Majority Leader McConnell said.
Serious effects of a shutdown won’t be felt until government employees are scheduled to return to work Monday morning. There is still a chance a compromise could be reached before that time.
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The chaos of the Chucky Chokehold begins. Dogs and cats, living together.
Democrats: “Illegals first”.
Trump: “America first”.
Pick a side.
#SchumerShutdown
It’s a thing.
Until it is reported in the news.
The Democratic senators are letting Aaron Sorkin write their lines. Too funny. It matters to Democrats because it’s mostly Democrats who work for the federal government. Republicans say, “Geesh, we’ll save some money for a few days.” :)
Except, I think very little money is saved.
What I don’t understand is, how the Dems can be so successfully self-righteous, no matter which side of a shut down they’re on.
It’s an unfair advantage: they’re self-righteous about everything all the time, so they have more practice than Republicans.
Further to the above, having a compliant media makes everything easier – no backtalk.
It is reported in the News. NYT and AP are laying the blame on the Democrats.
It is a Trumpian Miracle.
Despite a Republican President and a Congressional majority, we are still talking about continuing resolutions and not active budgeting. It’s theater on both sides of the aisle.
Rule of law is on life support.
Best way to get the Democrats to vote for a funding bill is put pressure on Democrat voters. I think Trump should announce Federal workers will not be reimbursed for hours they don’t work and if they want to be paid will have to take vacation hours. That’s one of the largest voting blocs the Dems have.
By the way, the Library of Congress and US Navy History and Heritage Command websites are still working. That [CoC] Obama had them taken down during the last shutdown.
@marcin Do you have a source for this assumption? Not trying to be troublesome, but as one who has worked for state government and with Federal Highway counterparts, I question this based upon my own experience. You might be surprised at how many conservatives are out there. This shutdown also affects National Guard and Reserve members as pointed out on another thread. I have some experience there as well.
Democrats are self-righteous by nature. It really doesn’t matter what position they take, it will always be the righteous one.
Despite the cognitive dissonance of their position, it’s easy for Dems to be this way because they are also oblivious to facts, logic, and common sense by nature.
Feinstein “People will die because of shutdown”
Feinstein Votes to shut down Government
Have you listened to or read Ben Sasse, Jeff Flake or David French lately?
They still don’t get as much practice as the Democrats. They are only self-righteous about Trump’s perceived failings.
AFN is already cut off the air.
The entire shutdown media drama was orchestrated by Chuck Schumer, for the purpose of maximizing national media exposure for Chuck Schumer.
Right. As you said, they have a national coalition of compliant media.
And an applauding portion of the public.
Isn’t it the tyranny of the urgent? Always a continuing resolution, so that the budgeting and funding process can be used as leverage for things like DACA and CHIP?
What is the legislative process for breaking the cycle of continuing resolution, and returning to proper budgeting and funding?
What is the basis of their no vote? Do these 4 form a coalition of no?
What do they want in exchange for their YES vote?
I hate to use network info, but:
http://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/government-shutdown-begins/story?id=52478196
Ok, so, Repub senators have concerns about military funding, then vote NO on the CR, which forces a shutdown, that prevents military from getting paid?
I think explanation is needed from these yoohas.
“I’m not going to vote for a CR,” Graham told reporters Wednesday. “I want to be fair to the DACA population. I want to begin to fix a broken immigration system. But above all else I want to rebuild the military that’s in a great decline. … And there is no way in the world to fix this problem without dealing with the DACA issue.”
https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2018/01/lindsey-graham-im-not-going-vote-funding-bill-without-daca-fix/
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/01/19/jeff-flake-sides-openly-democrats-daca-shutdown/
homenews/senate/369629-live-coverage-house-senate-in-scramble-as-shutdown-looms
http://www.businessinsider.com/government-shutdown-senate-vote-fails-after-no-trump-gop-democrat-deal-2018-1