US Governemnt Shutdown - round 2

[tassosss]

A government shutdown will begin at midnight. The Senate has recessed until 12:01 a.m. without passing a spending bill. (Washington Post)

BREAKING NEWS: A government shutdown will begin at midnight. The Senate has recessed until 12:01 a.m. without passing a spending bill.

The Senate planned to vote early Friday morning on a spending bill that would pour billions of dollars into the military and domestic programs while keeping the government operating.

The fate of the bill was uncertain in the House, where conservatives balked at adding billions to the nation’s debt and liberals demanded action on protecting young undocumented immigrants from deportation.

The House leadership had advised lawmakers to “prepare for late night or early morning votes.”

White House Office of Management and Budget spokesman John Czwartacki said late Thursday that “agencies are now being urged to review and prepare for a lapse” in spending after midnight.

This is the second shutdown in three weeks.

Well done, Congress. Well done. /sarcasm

For those following at home, I'm a govt contractor and I'm supposed to go in tomorrow to find out what I'm supposed to do.

ETA: Aand open again as of 5:30 am Friday

Congress has kept the government open (Vox)

After much drama and a brief but technical government shutdown, Congress voted to fund the government at roughly 5:30 am Friday — keeping federal agencies open until the end of March. Lawmakers extended government funding through March 23 in addition to passing a massive deal to increase investments in domestic programs and the military by roughly $300 billion over the next two years, and they increased the debt ceiling for one year. The bill passed at 71-28 in the Senate and 240-186 in the House with bipartisan support.

Comments

[lavendertook]

Hi fellow govt contractor. OPM has not announced it yet, so it's not official yet. So much fun staying up to midnight to find out if one's working or not tomorrow.

[tassosss]

Yeah we got the, we have forward money to stay open for the day so come in no matter what, email today. It could be normal or it could be shutdown procedures depend on what Congress gets done tonight or in the morning.

[lavendertook]

I'm so sorry. We've gotten no notice at all and what OPM has up on their site since midnight is the most pitiful thing I've seen them post yet, poor things.

[minoanmiss]

Oh what the ever-loving fuck. You have all my sympathies.

[tassosss]

Thanks. It's so frustrating.

[juliet316]

Stupid **#$*$ Rand Paul. And Washington D.C. as a whole.

[tassosss]

Agreed on Rand Paul. As a resident of the DC metro area, I'd like to gently point out that it's the people who come in from other states that generally muck things up. :)

But otherwise I wholheartedly agree with your sentiment that the US Congress is the shitshow to end all shitshows.

[juliet316]

My sincerest apologies, I didn't mean to paint all of DC with such a broad brush (and you've got a point about people from other states mucking things up - a certain person from NY in particular!). I should have narrowed my focus on Congress and our Orange dictator in the first place.

At least the shutdown was mercifully short this time.

[tassosss]

No worries - I knew what you meant. It's just one of those things :)

[erinptah]

"conservatives balked at adding billions to the nation’s debt"

Ughhhh. These are the people that added literally trillions to the nation's debt, like, last week. Why is anyone still swallowing this? You're reporters, you should remember the last thing that was in the news!

[tassosss]

This. Republicans only care about the debt when they are out of power.