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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: 2, Informative) by khallow on Saturday January 20 2018, @05:22PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 20 2018, @05:22PM (#625211) Journal

    Here, if the government can't pass a supply bill, the government falls.

    And that is better how? In the US case, it'll bounce around for at most a few weeks before the parties get over it and pass a budget. Life moves on.

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