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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) by https on Saturday January 20 2018, @07:28PM (2 children)

    by https (5248) on Saturday January 20 2018, @07:28PM (#625260) Journal

    ...or maybe those who had the ability to save it had a personal incentive to not.

    So hush, child, and go back to school on Monday. If it hasn't been closed due to billionaire charter school advocates ripping away government funding.

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    Offended and laughing about it.
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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @09:25PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @09:25PM (#625317)

    I'm sure you can't wrap your head around it, but lots of us Trump supporters really like the new Secretary of Education. In my opinion, she is my second favorite cabinet member after Mattis. She is bringing back rule of law.

    College students were getting kicked out based on flimsy accusations of sexual misconduct. Under the Obama-era policy, the concept of "innocent until proven guilty" was completely tossed aside. DeVos fixed that.

    Under pressure from Obama-era policy, discipline in public schools was racist. Instead of applying equal standards to all students, schools tracked discipline by race. On a per-student basis, non-white students could only get punished as often as white students. The non-white students could get away with all sorts of things and they knew it. It is now allowable, though sadly not required, to apply uniform standards.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @10:03PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @10:03PM (#625345)

      You're all crazier than we thought!

      Holy hell we're fucked, Mars is our next best hope for ditching these wackos.