House Democrats plan Thursday vote to end shutdown
Source: Politico
House Democrats will propose a two-part plan to reopen the federal government once they take power on Thursday, according to multiple Democratic aides.
Their proposal would fund the Department of Homeland Security until Feb. 8, and all other closed agencies such as Transportation, Commerce and Agriculture for the rest of the fiscal year through Sept. 30.
Democrats intend to vote on the plan Thursday, but Senate Republicans are unlikely to accept the measures.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/31/house-democrats-plan-thursday-vote-to-end-shutdown-1077196
Democrats have settled upon a strategy for attempting to reopen the government when they take control of the House Thursday.
Democrats plan to pass a stopgap spending bill to fund the Homeland Security Department through Feb. 8. The legislation would continue existing levels of border funding without giving President Trump the new wall money he is seeking.
It is the same bill that the Senate passed unanimously the week before Christmas before Trump decided he wasnt going to support it, leading to the partial government shutdown that began Dec. 22.
The House will also pass six other bills to reopen federal agencies that have been shuttered for more than a week, sending hundreds of thousands of federal employees home on furlough. Those bills would fully fund the agencies in question through Sept. 30.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/house-dems-ready-strategy-to-re-open-government-upon-assuming-control/2018/12/31/bfe4773a-0d16-11e9-84fc-d58c33d6c8c7_story.html
watoos
(7,142 posts)and voters are going to see it. Nancy Pelosi rocks, you go girl.
still_one
(92,190 posts)wait until they have to raise the debt ceiling, that is when it will get interesting, and just see if the republican assholes are willing to crash the economy as the U.S. credit rating is downgraded if they don't raise the debt ceiling
watoos
(7,142 posts)Senators are elected state wide, no gerrymandered districts. If Republican Senators approve the bill will Trump veto it? If he does he can't even lie then about who is responsible for the shutdown.
I'm pretty sure Pelosi has Trump by the balls.
still_one
(92,190 posts)onetexan
(13,041 posts)Lets get it done and get those paychecks to the hardworking federal employees to support their families.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)watoos
(7,142 posts)The GOP/Trump party is run by Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and Fox News. Ryan could have brought this bill up for a vote but instead he ran to the White House to get his new orders.
"Fixed fortifications are monuments to man's stupidity." General George Patton.
onit2day
(1,201 posts)Then senate repubs have no cover. They will be blamed for continuing shut down.
mac56
(17,567 posts)elmac
(4,642 posts)TomCADem
(17,387 posts)The same bipartisan bill that was overwhelmingly passed a few weeks ago?
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)The GOP knows Trump is in the midst of a temper tantrum that's about to collapse the economy. I figure we can put together a coalition of 20 Republican senators from Classes 3 (up for election in 2022) and 1 (up for election in 2024), plus 55 slightly realistic Republican House members, that can help us pass basic funding bills without Trump's help. And that's where we are right now: our government is in "caretaker" mode attempting to protect the American people from our demented president.
DrToast
(6,414 posts)paleotn
(17,912 posts)time is not on their side. It is on the Dems side. Pathetic that federal workers are treated like pawns by the rethugs.