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Senate Passes Short-Term Deal To Reopen Government, With Trump's Endorsement
President Trump has endorsed a bipartisan deal that would end the 35-day partial government shutdown. The three-week stopgap funding measure would reopen shuttered agencies while negotiations continue.
Trump announces deal to lift shutdown
President Donald Trump has endorsed a deal to reopen the US government for three weeks, after a record-breaking shutdown of federal agencies.
But the pact does not include any money that Mr Trump has demanded for a US-Mexico border wall.
See also: Dem senator unveils 'Stop STUPIDITY Act' to prevent all shutdowns
White House: 'Large down payment' on wall could end government shutdown
35 ways the shutdown is affecting America
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by bzipitidoo on Saturday January 26 2019, @12:31AM (5 children)
Okay, let's shut down the whole government, including the military. Honorably discharge all our soldiers. End the wars, and bring the boys home, all of them. Close all our bases, foreign and domestic. Leave NATO. Cancel all our weapons programs, scrap our entire navy, air force, and army and marine vehicles and equipment, and sell all the nuclear bombs to the highest bidders. Let's do a total "Milexit". We'll save trillions, do you hear me? Trillions!
And let's shut down the Department of Homeland Security, including the Coast Guard and the border patrol. We can make a smart wall that doesn't need to be patrolled, how's that sound?
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 26 2019, @12:46AM (1 child)
You need to do it slower, first just give them all the same day off.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 26 2019, @02:11AM
huh? I don't understand this but boy did it make me giggle.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday January 26 2019, @12:49AM (2 children)
Most of that would be a good idea.
Just keep a handful of working nuclear missiles and subs. Merge the branches into DHS/border patrol, and use more robots and drones.
Sell redundant military assets on the cheap to Canada, Mexico, UK, France, Germany, India, Japan, South Korea, and maybe a few others. Might as well throw some to Israel, so they can become/remain the big Middle East target. Do pull out of NATO, but arm up the NATO countries.
Take some of the hundreds of billions of savings and put some into NASA, NIH, NSF, and DARPA. Task DARPA with continuing or doubling down on research into computer chips, fusion, and robot warriors (which will become full-blown mechs if energy research pays off).
Later, if we want to stop being isolationist, we could use some kind of technology to disable or block nuclear strikes, while swarming our targets with robots and kinetic bombardments. Go ahead and fund a Space Force for that last one.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 26 2019, @02:40PM (1 child)
Some nice example of being dimwitted on display there....
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday January 26 2019, @03:25PM
Keep telling yourself that as you watch hundreds of billions of dollars being wasted every year.
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