Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

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

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.

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 5, Funny) by SomeGuy on Saturday January 20 2018, @05:25AM (2 children)

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Saturday January 20 2018, @05:25AM (#625052)

    "Your government has performed a stupid operation and will be shut down - If the problem persists, contact your local poling place."

    "Click Start, Shut Down, then Shut Down Government".

    "It is now safe to shut down your government".

    Anyway, this is just a hair surprising. They always like to hem and haw trying to get some inappropriate item rammed in at the last second, but usually already have a plan so they don't wind up out on their own asses. But the incompetence level up there has been quite a bit higher than usual. (Did they post the shutdown notice to Twitter? Nothing any more is official until it is posted to Twitter(TM)! )

    Starting Score:    1  point
    Moderation   +3  
       Funny=3, Total=3
    Extra 'Funny' Modifier   0  
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  

    Total Score:   5  
  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @06:25AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @06:25AM (#625071)

    "Retry, Ignore or Cancel"

    All of which do the same thing: nothing.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by maxwell demon on Saturday January 20 2018, @08:18AM

      by maxwell demon (1608) on Saturday January 20 2018, @08:18AM (#625099) Journal

      "Retry, Ignore or Cancel"

      General failure citing ancient DOS error messages.
      (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)gnore, (F)ail?

      Actually the (F)ail option came only in later DOS versions, and after its introduction, the (I)gnore option was quickly removed from actually generated errors. However the option to display it in principle still existed (the handler routine still had the option in the interface), it just wasn't used any more.

      "Cancel" was never available on those DOS error messages (I can'tremember seeing it anywhere else in DOS, either). Instead, "OK/Cancel" message boxes appeared in Windows (but there, IIRC error messages always only had an "OK" button).

      --
      The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.