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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: 5, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Saturday January 20 2018, @12:39PM (2 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Saturday January 20 2018, @12:39PM (#625143) Journal

    I concur. Let them stay shut down, and let everyone realize how much better our lives are without Washington, DC in it. That's the real risk for the uniparty, for us all to snap out of the fever dream the way we have been in other respects this past year, and realize that the world can be a much different place than the one they've painted us into.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday January 20 2018, @07:22PM (1 child)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday January 20 2018, @07:22PM (#625256) Homepage Journal

    I bet they don't stop spending whatever it takes to collect our taxes during the shutdown...

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @08:15PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @08:15PM (#625273)

      Unfortunately, my tax money is already allocated to bullets for tax collectors.