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[Erik Wasson @elwasson]

Update on this. OMB says that they will issue shutdown order after midnight since House not acting right away

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@ChadPergram Into next year? The fiscal year ends this October.

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@whodat1989 @ChadPergram Dems busted Approps jurisdiction back then. And Rs will be happy to oblige and use that precedent for border wall and defense dollars. What goes around comes around.

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@whodat1989 @ChadPergram Yes it was. There were two reconciliation bills in 2021 and 2022. Dems are aware of the mechanism and mastered it.

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@whodat1989 @ChadPergram You can because of 2021 precedent.

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@mkraju The guy needs Collins to pass approps bills and buck leadership on amendments. Not the best move.

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@tomcolicchio Under Trump, Ds tied two year spending cap deals to debt limit at times. But those were spending increases. CRS said there were policy provisions tied to debt limit the majority of the time since the 1970s. Horse trading isn’t new.

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@mehdirhasan @jonathanvswan Tribe didn’t know who the Speaker was. Bottom line Congress needs to do its job. This 14th amendment crap is ridiculous.

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@drumtroll @LisaDNews @SenRickScott Not if statute changes the suspension date - you can just say the government will pay its debt until a month from now - not specify by how much but by a date certain. Then Treasury deploys their various tools to buy some time.

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@rch371 The Fed facility they announced uses Treasury’s ESF as the backstop and that is def taxpayer money. Appropriated $500 B in CARES Act. They’re using $25 B of the funding leftover in that account for this.

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@MahirZeynalov Is this picture for real? Infuriating no matter which party.

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@joshHuder @byrdinator You mean for meltdowns? Not exactly something to aspire to.

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@jonathanweisman @costareports Think Senate can originate the DL bill/negotiate a package. Not technically a spending or rev bill. Discharge petition in House. It just makes the Senate stronger, per usual. HFC becomes less relevant and the House won’t be able to pass anything anyway.

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@JNicholsonInDC They could have handled themselves during reconciliation and they chose not to.

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@mj_lee @Phil_Mattingly When Democrats retook the House, Speaker Pelosi had the longest government shutdown in US history under her watch. Glass houses.

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@ELaserDavies The crime in DC is really a travesty. Thank God the kid will recover at least physically.

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@KDbyProxy @Brian_Riedl Ha sorry. Thanks for the context! Sounds like we should move the start of the FY to Jan 2nd.

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@KDbyProxy @Brian_Riedl But wouldn’t the negotiations expand to take the extra time? Lot of these negotiations is about digging in until the last minute.

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@SenRickScott @heatherhunterdc Ok then don’t give consent to speed it up. Stay in during Christmas.