Ready for a government shutdown?

[RX792P]

Looking more and more likely.

https://www.newsmax.com/us/governmen...23/id/1227461/

This one may even be a little different.

The Office of Management and Budget this year asked federal agencies to update their contingency plans for how they will operate if funding runs out when the fiscal year ends Sept. 30. In past shutdowns functions like air-traffic control and law enforcement have continued, while financial regulators have furloughed the vast majority of their staffs.

Those plans were often shared weeks in advance heading into past shutdowns. But as of Monday, the current versions have not been widely shared with Congress or the public and White House web page dedicated to those plans was blank.

If PRO is the opposite of CON, what's the opposite of PROGRESS?

[CG2014]

Why can't they pass the budget that covers an entire year from October 1st to September 30th?


I remember the days when a balanced budget was passed and it paid for the entire year for the entire U.S. Government to function including all branches of the Armed Forces.


Google shows the last time the Federal Government passed a yearly budget was 1996 for the year 1997.


2001 was the last time the Federal Government took in more money than it spent and that was also the last time it had a balanced budget.

[Unique_Carpenter]

OMG yes.
Maybe the overly obnoxious bullshit will get a lot quieter for a bit.

[RX792P]

Not many of those days
The United States has had only two periods of balanced budgets or surpluses in the last 60 years:
1969: President Lyndon B. Johnson's administration achieved a budget surplus in 1969.
1998–2001: The budget was balanced during the Clinton administration.



Since the fiscal year 1977, Congress has only passed all 12 of its regular appropriations bills by the October 1 deadline four times: fiscal years 1977, 1989, 1995, and 1997.

The U.S. Congress last passed all required appropriations bills on time for the 1997 fiscal year, which began on October 1, 1996.

[Precious_b]

Originally Posted by CG2014

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Google shows the last time the Federal Government passed a yearly budget was 1996 for the year 1997.


2001 was the last time the Federal Government took in more money than it spent and that was also the last time it had a balanced budget.

Can we have a maggie tell us which president was on duty when that happened? To my recollection, none have ever admitted or given credit to the one in office at the time.

Originally Posted by RX792P

Not many of those days
The United States has had only two periods of balanced budgets or surpluses in the last 60 years:
1969: President Lyndon B. Johnson's administration achieved a budget surplus in 1969.
1998–2001: The budget was balanced during the Clinton administration.

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OH! You had to let the cat out of the bag.

[RX792P]

Trump preps...
Think of all the money 'we' will save.

The White House is telling agencies to prepare large-scale firings of federal workers if the government shuts down next week.

In a memo released Wednesday night, the Office of Management and Budget said agencies should consider a reduction in force for federal programs whose funding would lapse next week, is not otherwise funded and is “not consistent with the President’s priorities.” That would be a much more aggressive step than in previous shutdowns, when federal workers not deemed essential were furloughed but returned to their jobs once Congress approved government spending.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-tr...b0bba54aaa6aca

[CG2014]

These are all the times the U.S. Government has shut down completely or parts of it were shut down


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Govern..._United_States

[CG2014]

When the government shut downs, federal employees either get furlough or get fired and they don't get paid.


Members of the branches of the U.S. Armed Forces also don't get paid.


Need to make it so everyone in Congress no longer gets paid, no longer have taxpayers money to pay for their private jets and $500 Martini lunches where they sit around and do nothing and for their bodyguards and limousines and their fancy 5 stars hotels and luxury residences that they stay in when they are in Washington DC.


That will stop everyone in Congress from not passing a yearly budget.

[texassapper]

Originally Posted by CG2014

Why can't they pass the budget that covers an entire year from October 1st to September 30th?

Because that would force our so called representatives to face some hard choices... cutting spending or raising taxes (or some combination thereof).

Since decreasing the INCREASE in taxes is referred to as a TAX CUT by Democrats, you can be certain spending will never decrease. It cannot be allowed to otherwise their Cloward Piven plan will be derailed.

Republicans cut taxes without addressing spending because they have the spine of wet newspaper...

We get what we voted for.... (assuming the votes are counted accurately)

[CG2014]

According to that Wiki page, the US government and Federal agencies continued to operate even without a congressional budget and funding until 1980 when all that changed.


So the whole thing is Democrats fault because the Attorney General under the then Democratic Jimmy Carter Administration couldn't keep his mouth shut and had to voice his opinion.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Govern...ed_States#1980

[CPT Savajo]

More like are you ready for a default on debt instead of a government shutdown. Nah! They'll kick the can down the road like they always do. The Fed has a printing press, Trump does not. They're not ready for Mad Max in the streets, yet.

[ICU 812]

Ready for a shut down? Hope that doesn't happen.

Hope the Democrat's leadership figures out that if there is a shut down and "al "non-essentile" federal employees are sent home, the fact that they are considered n "on-essential". by their agencies means that they are ripe for elimination by the Administration.

[texassapper]

I'm having a dinner party to celebrate if it happens.