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jeffw Jul 29, 2023

House and Senate on a collision course toward a government shutdown (again)

House and Senate on a collision course toward a government shutdown (again) - Lemmy.world

The House and Senate might not be able to agree to terms to fund the federal government by the Sept. 30 deadline, and that’s OK to an influential bloc of hard-line House conservatives who are playing an outsize role in both the spending process and the fate of Kevin McCarthy’s speakership.

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Maruki_Hurakami Jul 30, 2023

I wish that anyone there is a government shutdown no current politician is available for reelection. If you can’t work together sometimes then GTFO!

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Spaceman2901 Jul 30, 2023

I take a somewhat harder line.

Failure to pass an on time budget (no CRs) is treated as dereliction of duty and gets every seat in Congress vacated, requiring special elections, with no member so expelled eligible to run or be a registered lobbyist for at least ten years.

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charles

So you want the party of “I’d eat my own shit if it meant democrats had to smell it on my breath” to have the unilateral power to remove every single one of their “enemies” for a decade?