Schumaker threatens government shutdown

[American_Jihad]

lol, Trump will say go ahead will save money...
SCHUMER THREATENS GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN OVER BORDER WALL
Democrats flip sides on legislative tactics.

(He is a shoemaker...)​

After Democratic lawmakers’ years of shrieking and televised temper tantrums over how shutting down the federal government somehow approximates treason, Democrats have suddenly embraced the tactic in their quest to keep the nation’s borders wide open for Muslim terrorists and illegal aliens.

Democrats are threatening to force a shut-down of the government after it runs out of operating funds after April 28.

Outnumbered in both houses of Congress, and facing a Republican in the White House for the first time in eight years, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and other Democrats say they will oppose efforts to finance President Trump’s planned border wall in spending legislation needed to keep the government open for business. Adding favored projects to must-pass spending bills, instead of dealing with the projects as freestanding legislation outside the budget process, is a time-honored way of getting things done in Congress. Both parties do it when in the majority.

But Schumer is now a professional obstructionist committed to undermining the Trump administration so at long last he sees things differently.

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President Trump has praised the Secure Communities program. Radical activists on George Soros’s payroll bragged last year about killing it during the Obama era.

And given the chance, Chuck Schumer and his colleagues will kill the program, along with any efforts to secure the nation’s porous border, again and again.


http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266097/schumer-threatens-government-shutdown-over-border-matthew-vadum

 

[waltky]

Granny ain't gonna like it if she don't get her social security check...

If Government Shuts Down, 'No One Gets Paid,' DoD Comptroller Says
7 Dec 2017 - All military personnel, including troops in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, would go without pay in the event of a government shutdown due to the perennial failure of Congress to enact a budget on time, the Pentagon's comptroller said Thursday.

"No one gets paid" stateside and in war zones under a shutdown, Comptroller David Norquist said at a Pentagon news conference. "Payment will not be made until the shutdown is over." The same goes for hundreds of thousands of Defense Department civilians, Norquist said. Most would be furloughed with the exception of those considered vital for national security. While the House on Thursday passed another short-term resolution, even if the Senate follows suit, the chambers will have to do the same thing again in two weeks A day ago, President Donald Trump warned that a shutdown "could happen." He blamed Democrats for failing to compromise on immigration. He said Democrats want "illegal immigrants pouring into our country, bringing with them crime, tremendous amounts of crime."

A shutdown would be the worst-case scenario for national defense but another continuing resolution also would impact readiness, according to Norquist and Dana White, the Pentagon's chief spokesperson. "I can't emphasize enough how destructive a shutdown would be," Norquist said. White noted the Pentagon has operated under stopgap measures for the last nine years -- for a total of 1,081 days -- in ways that delayed vital programs and disrupted planning. National security demanded a "robust and predictable" budget process, she said.

However, the budget process often is driven more by the politics of the moment rather than the long-term interests of the nation. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Thursday Democrats were to blame for the continuing resolutions and the threat of a shutdown. She urged them "not to hold this bill hostage." House and Senate Democrats have been pressing for more spending on health care, infrastructure and other domestic programs to match increases Republicans want for defense.

Although a shutdown on Friday appeared unlikely, Norquist said department contingency plans call for sending out hundreds of thousands of notices to those would be impacted. He also said even a two-week continuing resolution would have a negative effect on the Pentagon. Norquist cited the additional funding for munitions requested by all combatant commands that was included in the proposed fiscal 2018 budget. "A CR says 'Stop, wait, don't award that contract,'" Norquest said. The result would be a delay "in meeting the requirements of combatant commanders," he said.

If Government Shuts Down, 'No One Gets Paid,' DoD Comptroller Says

 

[OKTexas]

lol, Trump will say go ahead will save money...
SCHUMER THREATENS GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN OVER BORDER WALL
Democrats flip sides on legislative tactics.

(He is a shoemaker...)​

After Democratic lawmakers’ years of shrieking and televised temper tantrums over how shutting down the federal government somehow approximates treason, Democrats have suddenly embraced the tactic in their quest to keep the nation’s borders wide open for Muslim terrorists and illegal aliens.

Democrats are threatening to force a shut-down of the government after it runs out of operating funds after April 28.

Outnumbered in both houses of Congress, and facing a Republican in the White House for the first time in eight years, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and other Democrats say they will oppose efforts to finance President Trump’s planned border wall in spending legislation needed to keep the government open for business. Adding favored projects to must-pass spending bills, instead of dealing with the projects as freestanding legislation outside the budget process, is a time-honored way of getting things done in Congress. Both parties do it when in the majority.

But Schumer is now a professional obstructionist committed to undermining the Trump administration so at long last he sees things differently.

...

President Trump has praised the Secure Communities program. Radical activists on George Soros’s payroll bragged last year about killing it during the Obama era.

And given the chance, Chuck Schumer and his colleagues will kill the program, along with any efforts to secure the nation’s porous border, again and again.


http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266097/schumer-threatens-government-shutdown-over-border-matthew-vadum

Did you fall into a time machine, that was two CRs ago.


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[waltky]

Here we go again...

Congress Passes Stopgap Spending Bill to Avert Weekend Shutdown
8 Dec 2017 | The measure should keep the government running through Dec. 22.

The House and Senate on Thursday passed a stopgap spending bill to prevent a government shutdown this weekend and buy time for challenging talks on a wide range of unfinished business on Capitol Hill. The measure passed on a vote of 235-193 in the House and 81-14 in the Senate, and would keep the government running through Dec. 22. The resolution was set to be sent to President Donald Trump for his signature. Without the stopgap, funding would have run out and a partial federal government shutdown would have ensued.

An American flag flies over Capitol Hill in Washington.​

Cassie B. Barlow witnessed the consequences of a 16-day partial federal government shutdown in October 2013 when about 13,000 civil service employees at Ohio's largest single-site employer were sent home on furlough at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. "The biggest impact is a loss of trust on behalf of the employees and that's something that is difficult to recover from," the retired Air Force colonel and former base commander said in an interview Thursday with this news outlet. "These are people who have made a commitment to serve for 10, 20, 30, 40 years." The ripple effect of the shutdown stopped work in many cases throughout the base, which has major headquarters for the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center and Air Force Research Laboratory that support the entire Air Force. "It really is just devastating and it's very disruptive to getting work done," she said.

Congressional votes

U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, R-Dayton, "reluctantly" voted yes for the stopgap spending measure to extend funding for two weeks "on the condition that leadership is making representation that they're close to a budget deal," he said in an interview Thursday. U.S. Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Troy, also said he would vote for the stopgap legislation. "Really, my inclination is to vote no except that we can't really shut the government down," said Davidson, who expressed frustration with Senate inaction on House spending legislation.

Turner was "not very confident" a final budget deal would be reached Dec. 22, citing uncertainty of what the Senate would do. "If this becomes politics as usual, we could have a shutdown," he said. Davidson said he was "not incredibly optimistic" a deal would be reached in two weeks with the Senate.

'Unfortunate mood'

 

[Spoonman]

Democrats, the party of obstruction

 

[bripat9643]

lol, Trump will say go ahead will save money...
SCHUMER THREATENS GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN OVER BORDER WALL
Democrats flip sides on legislative tactics.

(He is a shoemaker...)​

After Democratic lawmakers’ years of shrieking and televised temper tantrums over how shutting down the federal government somehow approximates treason, Democrats have suddenly embraced the tactic in their quest to keep the nation’s borders wide open for Muslim terrorists and illegal aliens.

Democrats are threatening to force a shut-down of the government after it runs out of operating funds after April 28.

Outnumbered in both houses of Congress, and facing a Republican in the White House for the first time in eight years, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and other Democrats say they will oppose efforts to finance President Trump’s planned border wall in spending legislation needed to keep the government open for business. Adding favored projects to must-pass spending bills, instead of dealing with the projects as freestanding legislation outside the budget process, is a time-honored way of getting things done in Congress. Both parties do it when in the majority.

But Schumer is now a professional obstructionist committed to undermining the Trump administration so at long last he sees things differently.

...

President Trump has praised the Secure Communities program. Radical activists on George Soros’s payroll bragged last year about killing it during the Obama era.

And given the chance, Chuck Schumer and his colleagues will kill the program, along with any efforts to secure the nation’s porous border, again and again.


http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266097/schumer-threatens-government-shutdown-over-border-matthew-vadum

I hope he does shut down the government because he wants to grant amnesty to illegal aliens.

That will go over so well with the voters, and Trump is just the right man to point out what they are doing.