Republicans are facing another government shutdown, and they may not be able to stop it

[DonViejo]

MONDAY, MAR 27, 2017 09:06 AM EDT

Republicans are facing another government shutdown, and they may not be able to stop it

Republicans run both houses of Congress and the White House, but the government still may shut down

JEREMY BINCKES

Republicans are having trouble realizing that “as the heads of the government, they actually [have] to do something beyond angrily shaking their fists at the world,” Salon’s Matthew Sheffield has pointed out. That’s a lesson that may come too late for GOP, as a government shutdown is looming.

A shutdown is “more likely than not,” Axios reported on Monday, pointing to April 29 as the day that the government will cease its routine functions after the last continuing resolution on funding expires. The last time the government shut down was in 2013, an event that lasted for two weeks. But that shutdown was a political maneuver, designed by Republicans who vehemently opposed former President Barack Obama’s immigration policies. But this isn’t 2013, and the Republicans aren’t against anything. They just have an inability to govern.

“There are some folks in the Republican House caucus who have yet to make the pivot from complaining to governing,” Republican pollster Whit Ayres recently told the Associated Press. “And this is a White House controlled by a politician who is not really trying to lead a party.”

The Republican congressional leadership is so desperate that it’s starting to consider approaching moderate Democrats and the Congressional Black Caucus — a group that President Donald Trump singled out during a press conference last month — because the ultraconservative coalition known as the House Freedom Caucus is unlikely to work with the party to pass anything. That message was repeated by Rep. Ted Poe, R- Texas, who announced on Sunday he was stepping down as a member of the House Freedom Caucus.

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[TheMastersNemesis]

1. One Assumes That the "Freedom Caucus" Is Against Raising The Debt Ceiling.

In that case Ryan would need Democratic help most likely to pass the rise in the debt ceiling.

[MineralMan]

4. Yes, it is against raising the debt ceiling, and

will probably vote against doing that. The Freedom Caucus is also known by intelligent people as The Clown Caucus.

[Dustlawyer]

2. The chemical castration Judge Poe is a world class

POS! Used to be my Congressman and you would be hard pressed to find a bigger asshole!

[exboyfil]

5. From my state - I would offer Steve King

Who I think is a bigger one.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. I have been posting about this a bunch of times

Forget the 2018 stuff - the government is still operating under a CR for fiscal year 2017 until the end of April. And the debt ceiling was supposed to be revisited and breached this month per the 2017 budget passage. So there is need to handle that debt ceiling and finalize the appropriations for FY2017 (and both chambers are scheduled to be on spring recess for 2 weeks in April).