Senators struggle to get spending bills off ground as shutdown looms
Source: The Hill
Senate government funding talks are off to a rough start with 10 working days to go until the shutdown deadline.
The impasse is throwing into question if senators will be able to get any of the fiscal 2020 bills through the chamber this month, a setback for Republicans who wanted to clear a major package before October.
Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) said he still wants to bring bills to the Senate floor for a vote but warned that lawmakers need to negotiate the terrain.
Weve been down that road before, he said, asked how the funding talks get unstuck. Theres got to be a resolution to it it could be sooner. It could be later.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/461372-senators-struggle-to-get-spending-bills-off-ground-as-shutdown-looms
Bayard
(21,805 posts)Even for rethuglicans.
OliverQ
(3,363 posts)AllaN01Bear
(17,377 posts), hem
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,485 posts)Because the bulk of of their voters who Seniors on these programs they paid into live in states represented by Republicans. They need these voters for their survival.
turbinetree
(24,632 posts)and ask her what she thinks should be done.....................with the 1.5 trillion tax cut she voted for and if Social Security and Medicare, the fucking money that we put in "our trust fund" should be fucking cut, because she hates the words Social Security?
And has for Shelby, what an enabling traitor in 1994 he switched parties.................so he really can sit on his thumb an twirl.............repeal the fucking tax cut asshole how's that for negotiating a terrain.......................
November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough......................