U.S. Budget & OBBB | OCT 1 - Gov’t Shutdown Begins

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1moretimeagain said:
Government is officially shut down. Stay up as late as you want.
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That was my plan until I got the notice on my Alert for the DOD that I was deemed essential and excepted. Meaning I must work (for backpay later when they finally do grow up and agree) AND I can't take leave except sick leave.

Oh well, my migraine meds are also awesome hangover meds...
 
PTOHeel said:
Just got an email from the department my agency works under about planning for a potential lapse in funding. It's brief and mainly focusses on Democrats blocking the Continuing Resolution and forcing the potential shutdown. I've been through many potential and actual government shutdowns and never seen a communication like this. Just add it to the giant pile of crazy.
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got the same email but mine went directly to spam because it was sent from a email address without a valid signature. I blocked the email address it was sent from and deleted it.
 
I think Schumer is calculating wrong here. They are going to get 100% of the blame.

The stack of plates was already wobbling and was going to crash on its own in some form. Now Trump is just going to say "The Democrats bumped the table!" I mean the full force of the Federal government has already been saying that for a week. This was not the stand to take.
 
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Gift —> https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy...d?st=aizhPw&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

“… The shutdown could be more consequential than those that have happened in the past. Trump administration officials have said they plan to use the shutdown to reduce the size of the government, moving to cut jobs across agencies. That effort is already being challenged in court.

The funding lapse will have far-reaching ramifications. For the duration of the shutdown, the Labor Department is expected to pause the release of economic data—likely including a highly anticipated jobs report that was set to be made public on Friday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will stop analyzing surveillance data for reportable diseases. Many planned workspace safety inspections will be canceled. And workers won’t trim grass and install headstones at national cemeteries….”
 
nycfan said:
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Gift —> https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy...d?st=aizhPw&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

“… The shutdown could be more consequential than those that have happened in the past. Trump administration officials have said they plan to use the shutdown to reduce the size of the government, moving to cut jobs across agencies. That effort is already being challenged in court.

The funding lapse will have far-reaching ramifications. For the duration of the shutdown, the Labor Department is expected to pause the release of economic data—likely including a highly anticipated jobs report that was set to be made public on Friday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will stop analyzing surveillance data for reportable diseases. Many planned workspace safety inspections will be canceled. And workers won’t trim grass and install headstones at national cemeteries….”
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House lawmakers aren’t expected to return to Washington until next week and any compromise funding proposal would need their approval. Congress hasn’t passed any appropriations bills, so unlike during the 34-day partial shutdown that ended in 2019, no government offices have been funded.

The Office of Management and Budget has asked agencies to consider reductions in force for employees whose work doesn’t align with the president’s priorities and isn’t funded by other revenue streams. “We can cut large numbers of people,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday.

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Russ Vought, Trump’s budget chief, asked agencies last week to submit plans laying out how they would scale back services during a shutdown. An analysis of those plans by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that 750,000 federal employees could be furloughed.

The shutdown will slow or halt government functionsacross agencies. The Office for Civil Rights at the Education Department won’t investigate claims of discrimination in schools. The CDC won’t offer guidance to states about opioid overdoses and diabetes or HIV prevention.

All but one employee in the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which is tasked with collecting jobs data, will be furloughed. The National Institutes of Health won’t meet to do peer-review research, nor will it admit new patients at its clinical center. …”
 
altmin said:
I think Schumer is calculating wrong here. They are going to get 100% of the blame.

The stack of plates was already wobbling and was going to crash on its own in some form. Now Trump is just going to say "The Democrats bumped the table!" I mean the full force of the Federal government has already been saying that for a week. This was not the stand to take.
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True. But what shouldn’t be lost is the fact the last shutdown was 2019 - also on trump’s watch. Couple that with what he said back in 2012 or 2013 about how any government shutdown is squarely on the President, who is “weak” for allowing a shutdown to occur on his watch.
 
I’m thinking that the way they are implementing P2025 maybe if the government is shut down they can’t continue to destroy everything that they deem “woke” like healthcare?
 
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