House passes measure to avoid government shutdown

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY CRISTINA MARCOS AND MELANIE ZANONA - 12/21/17 04:51 PM EST

House Republicans on Thursday evening narrowly passed a stopgap measure to avoid a government shutdown, one day before the deadline.

GOP leaders’ struggle to clinch the 231-188 vote demonstrated how, despite being fresh off their tax-overhaul victory, House Republicans remain bitterly divided when it comes to spending legislation. With House Democrats refusing to supply votes to help pass the spending bill, Republicans were left to pull together the votes among themselves.

Current government funding runs out after Friday. The short-term spending patch, which keeps federal agencies funded through Jan. 19, now heads to the Senate, where it’s not clear yet whether Democrats will vote to break a filibuster.

The continuing resolution also includes funding through March for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), a short-term extension of the government’s foreign surveillance powers, some spending “anomalies” for defense and a waiver for pay-as-you-go budgetary rules so the GOP tax bill doesn’t trigger automatic cuts to Medicare.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/366070-house-passes-measure-to-avoid-government-shutdown

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Brilliant play, Wednesday take all the money from working people, give it to the rich

Wednesday night take heaps of shit for it

Thursday pretend to care by passing bill to prevent shutdown.

The coup is complete. But emails!

[Fred Sanders]

2. China, India, almost all countries have 5, 10, 20 year budgets and plans. America does it four

weeks at a time. No wonder they are catching up as America declines.