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U.S. Government Shutdown Starting on January 20, 2018

posted by takyon on Saturday January 20 2018, @05:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the limited-government dept.

takyon writes:

After 10 PM EST on Friday, The U.S. Senate rejected a deal that would fund the U.S. government for another month:

Only five Democrats voted to advance the bill — Sens. Joe Manchin (W.Va.), Joe Donnelly (Ind.), Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.) and Claire McCaskill (Mo.), who are all up for reelection this year in states carried by President Trump in 2016 election, and newly-elected Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.).

Republicans were also not united, as Sens. Rand Paul (Ky.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Mike Lee (Utah) and Jeff Flake (Ariz.) also voted against advancing the legislation. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who is battling brain cancer, was absent.

The procedural vote remained open late Friday, though it needed 60 votes to pass and was well short of that number with 48 senators voting against it.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer continued to negotiate after the vote opened (archive), but no deal has been reached yet. As of midnight (5 minutes before this story went live), the government shutdown was in effect.

At Wikipedia: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Government shutdowns in the United States.

 
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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Tangaroa on Saturday January 20 2018, @05:14AM (3 children)

    by Tangaroa (682) on Saturday January 20 2018, @05:14AM (#625046) Homepage
    The reason that a bill would need 60 votes to pass the Senate instead of 50 votes is because the minority party has threatened to filibuster the bill and the majority party does not have the guts to present the bill and make them do it. This Quora answer is a good explanation. [quora.com]
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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @05:23AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @05:23AM (#625050)

    It only takes 50 votes to eliminate the senate rule that requires 60 votes.

    Mitch McConnell could do it in a few minutes if he wanted to. He did it for Gorsuch. If he doesn't get rid of that silly rule, it is because he finds it convenient to hide his true intentions behind the extra 10 votes. He is serving the uniparty (built on blackmail and "donors"), not the people who elected him.

    • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday January 20 2018, @12:17PM

      by Phoenix666 (552) on Saturday January 20 2018, @12:17PM (#625137) Journal

      That's right. It's the classic, "Golly I could fix this problem if we had 5 more [party] Senators. Send us more money right away so we can get that done." All the while they close the doors and do what the uniparty wants with no fuss, no muss.

      --
      Washington DC delenda est.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @06:41AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @06:41AM (#625077)

    you did notice there was more than one R senator who voted against it? So It's not even a matter of the Rs wanting to wish it into being.

    I do remember more than a few Presidential wants that got acuppered by Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, while they were wagingvtheir own political fights. Like Harry Reid making the so-called "nuclear option" happen in the Senate.

    So we only get politics for the sake of politics (and dogma).