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House Republicans unveil their plan to avert a government shutdown next week (www.nbcnews.com)
submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave to c/politics
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House Republicans on Saturday unveiled their stopgap funding bill to avert a government shutdown set to begin next weekend. But with just five legislative days left until the deadline, Congress has little room for error.

Just two and a half weeks into the job, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., opted to go with a two-step continuing resolution, or CR, over a more typical funding extension covering the entire federal government. The untested funding approach is aimed at appeasing far-right agitators in his GOP conference who despise CRs.

The House is expected to vote as early as Tuesday to give members 72 hours to read the text of the bill, according to two people familiar with matter. The plan does not include budget cuts or aid for Israel.

Under the two-step strategy — which Johnson and others have dubbed a “laddered CR” but which others have likened to a step stool — several spending bills needed to keep the government open would catch a ride on a short-term bill until Jan. 19, while the remaining bills would go on a CR until Feb. 2.

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[–] Makeitstop 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can see two possible explanations for why they want this stupid "ladder" structure.

  1. They know a shut down will do them more harm than good politically, but can't just give up after demanding so many things that were never going to work out. Therefore, they put in this stupid gimmick that doesn't really affect anything, but which allows them to claim some kind of victory.

  2. They want to stagger the spending cut offs so they can threaten a partial shut down next time, which they can more easily defend while still inflicting pain.

“I just don’t think that Americans care that much,” Bishop added.

Smartest thing any of them have said in a while.

[–] tburkhol 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Splitting parts of government that they consider essential from those they're willing to hold hostage. TSA and defence in one bill, medicare, FDA, and DOT in the other.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

xactly

[–] Makeitstop 1 points 1 year ago

While I'm sure that's the case, I don't think that makes much of a difference. The whole government shuts down two weeks later, so doesn't really separate the issues. It just make it easier for them to go over the cliff, since they won't care about the harm being done, and won't have to answer questions about voting against things their supporters care about while they're trying to play hardball.

In other words, this doesn't accomplish anything meaningful on its own, it just tries to put them in a better bargaining position so they can make stronger demands next year.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

they want it to group everything they want to defund in one place and not let it go through.

[–] homesweethomeMrL 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So . . a shutdown, then.

Yeah.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's like a shutdown but with extra steps!

[–] FuglyDuck 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Their hope is that the average voter is too stupid to work through the extra step.

Sad part is… that’s not entirely unrealistic. Their voters are DuMb

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Senate already said absolutely not. They don't want to shut down different agencies one at a time during an election year,

Hes settling on a shutdown

[–] AA5B 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Damn, that’s not a ladder, not even really step stool. Would you believe a threshold, just tall enough to trip over?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I read that last part in maxwell smarts voice.

[–] FuglyDuck 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You only need an inch to hang yourself,

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Um, you can drown in an inch of water (if unable to move) but how can you hang yourself with an inch of rope? Maybe you mean a rope that suspends you an inch from the ground?

[–] FuglyDuck 2 points 1 year ago

They were talking step stools being short. So yes, it was the inch above the ground. (Well, dynamic ropes need not apply,)

[–] cabron_offsets 15 points 1 year ago

Do they plan to fuck off and die?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

What a plan, inflating one of the tires on the bike...

[–] njm1314 7 points 1 year ago

Is it adhere to the budget you all already passed? Is it to be responsible for once?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Give them nothing and let them take the blame like they always do.

[–] ATDA 1 points 1 year ago

This way they can sell the idea that liberals got on a higher and higher rung before doing a backflip body slam on thier plans?