Shutdown threatens a 'gut punch' as agencies brace for closure

[workinclasszero]

Shutdown threatens a 'gut punch' as agencies brace for closure
Agencies are dusting off contingency plans as they scramble to deal with a sudden escalation into spending crisis.
By LORRAINE WOELLERT 01/19/2018 10:30 AM EST Updated 01/19/2018 01:41 PM EST

Federal agencies are bracing for a shutdown amid growing uncertainty about whether the Senate will vote to keep the government open past midnight.

Unlike the last federal shutdown in 2013, which President Barack Obama had signaled for weeks, this threat arrived abruptly.

On Thursday morning, President Donald Trump fired off a hot-tempered tweet to Congress condemning a short-term deal to fund children’s health insurance. By afternoon, federal agencies were issuing legal guidance, briefing staff on the definition of “essential” personnel, and dusting off their contingency plans. On Thursday night, the Office of Management and Budget began releasing legal guidance to agencies. By Friday morning, preparations were moving ahead.

"I've never seen such a disorderly, chaotic government shutdown," Cox told POLITICO. "I've been through several shutdowns and I've never been through one this weird, this crazy."

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/19/government-shutdown-2018-federal-agencies-347919?lo=ap_e1

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. GOP has orgasms thinking about harming little people, average people.

[workinclasszero]

2. They moved Heaven and Earth to get a tax cut for billionaires

But govt employees getting thrown out of work and the whole system of democratic government grinding to a halt?

Hey thats republican holy scripture you know? Chapter and verse.

I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub. Grover Norquist

I'm a Leninist. Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that's my goal, too. I want to bring everything crashing down and destroy all of today's establishment. Stephen Bannon


Putin the dictator of Russia has the same goals as the republican party, go figure.