Odds of Government Shutdown Now 60%

[DonViejo]

July 24, 2018 at 7:17 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 12 Comments

Stan Collender: “The deadline for Congress and President Donald Trump to come to an agreement that will avoid a government shutdown this fall — which may be a much more frequent threat and occurrence these days than it used to be but would still be anything but routine – is approaching quickly and neither the White House, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) or Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) have done anything to make it less likely.”

”Because of that, because the time left to prevent it from happening is steadily dwindling and because the other must-do tasks Congress has left are still multiplying, the chances of a shutdown happening this year are greater now than they were even a few week ago.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2018/07/24/odds-of-government-shutdown-now-60/

[Gothmog]

1. A government shutdown just before the midterms is not going to be popular

[MineralMan]

2. Republicans will blame it on Democrats, of course.

And their base will cheer.

Up is down.

[Recursion]

3. For 25 years now Republicans have said "THIS TIME the public will support a shutdown"

It's like Charlie Brown and the football

[MineralMan]

4. The inability of Republicans to actually create a working funding bill

is an indication of the functional bankruptcy of that party. With control of all three branches of government, they are still unable to accomplish a damned thing. You'd think that people would become frustrated with such incompetence. But, no...