Impending Government Shutdown Coming?

Time is running out to get a bill passed that will fund the government.

Seems a lot of people are freaking out.

And they seem to be Democrats.

Meanwhile I’m seeing lots of Republicans online stating, “Shut it down!”

The deadline for some departments is March 1st, while others are exteneded until March 8.

Less than a week left.

Will the funding bill get passed?

When lawmakers return to Washington next week, they'll have less than a week to pass a bill to fund the government and avert a partial government shutdown after March 1. https://t.co/jKDFmhuRnK

— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 22, 2024

CBS News reports:

When lawmakers return to Washington next week, they’ll have less than a week to pass a bill to fund the government and avert a partial government shutdown after March 1. And a slew of setbacks in recent weeks suggests the odds of a shutdown are at least even.

Tensions remain high in Congress after the Senate passed a foreign aid bill that Speaker Mike Johnson has so far refused to bring up for a vote in the House. Lawmakers in both chambers have clamored for a path forward on aid to Ukraine as conditions become more dire, while some are eager to address border security, too. But a solution has remained out of reach as Republicans in both chambers struggle to find a version of the legislation they can back.

After leaving town for the Presidents Day recesses without a clear path forward on either government funding or the supplemental Ukraine and Israel aid measure, the House and Senate are set to return to Capitol Hill next week. Lawmakers will have just three days when both chambers are in session to approve the first four appropriations bills to prevent a partial shutdown after March 1. The second deadline will land a week later, on March 8, after which funding for the bulk of government agencies is set to expire.

“I think the odds [of a shutdown] are 50-50 at this point,” Rep. Patrick McHenry, a North Carolina Republican who served as speaker pro tempore during the speaker election last year, told CBS News’ “The Takeout” podcast.

The deadlines come months into the fiscal year, after lawmakers have already had to rely on three funding patches to keep the government operating. After pushing the deadline off in September, and then again in November, lawmakers extended funding once more in January. With the short-term continuing resolution, they set up a two-step deadline to fund the government.

The move aims to divide work on the 12 individual spending bills to avoid a massive omnibus bill to fund the government, which has become the norm in recent years. According to the Pew Research Center, Congress hasn’t passed more than five of its 12 appropriations bills on time since 1996, opting almost every year for continuing resolutions and ultimately omnibus packages to get the government funding over the finish line.

Owen Shroyer from Info Wars gives his take on the government shut down.

And he’s got a point.

How many government funded organizations have we been trained to support when in reality they’re a worthless drain on our finances and a restriction on our freedoms?

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— INFOWARS FAN (@InfoWars_tv) February 21, 2024

If the government shuts down, will we still be able to beg the government for a license to fish in our own country?

Unless you’re in immigrant, you can do whatever you want.

Fox News adds:

With roughly a week until Congress’ deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown, House and Senate leaders are seriously considering a short-term federal funding extension to give lawmakers more time to reach a deal.

Four sources told Fox News Digital that the spending patch, known as a continuing resolution (CR), is increasingly likely to be congressional leaders’ near-term fix to avoid the negative impacts of a partial shutdown.

A CR would give lawmakers more time to put together a spending deal for the next fiscal year without risking potentially furloughing thousands of government employees and pausing critical federal programs in the meantime. That deal is still being negotiated by Congressional leaders and appropriators.

“Our speaker is doing his best, but I do think he has stopped saying, ‘This will be the last CR,’ because he sees that the Senate is almost impossible to negotiate with, with a deadline,” one GOP lawmaker told Fox News Digital. “We really do need them to just stop assuming they can kick the can each and every time down the road, when all that does is build pressure on our side, on the House side with Republicans.”

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When asked if another CR was the likely move, the GOP lawmaker said, “unfortunately.”

Under a plan negotiated by Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., designed to avoid a single massive “omnibus” spending bill for fiscal year 2024, government funding deadlines were split into two halves – some departments’ funding expires on March 1, while others’ runs out on March 8.

And what was the last government shutdown about?

$5 billion for the wall.

That was just too much for the Democrats to stomach!

Yet, they can give $113 BILLION to Ukraine.

“You want another $50 billion? Yeah, no problem. Anything for you, Zelenskyy.”

To put this in perspective, the longest government shutdown in U.S. history (35 days) was over $5.000.000,000 for the border wall.@SpeakerPelosi refused to fund $5 billion for the border wall, instead offering $1.4 billion to build fencing in the Rio Grande Valley. pic.twitter.com/TPPZ6lg4pj

— NahBabyNah (@NahBabyNah) February 20, 2024