Schumer Shutdown Question

[sparky]

Frankly, I'm amazed that they only pissed away $42.5 billion!

does that mean it was a good or bad day Ed?

~S~

 

[Robert W]

Senator John McCain recognized that the blowhard had no alternative plan then.

Neither the blowhard nor his lickspittles are offering one now

Our plan does not keep illegals getting free health care. BBB ended it but Democrats want you all to pay for illegals.

 

[Robert W]

Still, so far we've had no accidents. Perhaps they aren't as essential as we think.

Very rarely does ATC get blamed for crashes. WE pilots get blamed generally.

 

[schmidlap]

Our plan does not keep illegals getting free health care. BBB ended it but Democrats want you all to pay for illegals.

That lie has been repeatedly, thoroughly, debunked.


https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-government-shutdown-health-care-immigrant-11b3ec0066407a17b407bc8e43962fd9

 

[Nostra]

If you think that most folks will be happy to see Republicans succeed in causing millions of their fellow Americans to lose their healthcare coverage, I don't see it.

The House-passed reconciliation bill would take health coverage away from millions of people and dramatically raise health care costs for millions more. The so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” is anything but beautiful; it would cause widespread harm by making massive cuts to Medicaid, Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace coverage, and SNAP, which would raise costs on families and make it much harder for them to afford the high cost of groceries and health care.​

https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/by-the-numbers-house-bill-takes-health-coverage-away-from-millions-of-people-and

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Nearly twice as many Americans want it to end with Democrats getting their way rather than Republicans.​

100% lies.

 

[Robert W]

That lie has been repeatedly, thoroughly, debunked.

https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-government-shutdown-health-care-immigrant-11b3ec0066407a17b407bc8e43962fd9

Debunked? My report states illegals can't now get free health care.

 

[Nostra]

Honestly, I hate Chuck Schumer. Wish he would go away. He's not doing us any favors. We need new leadership that's for sure. Republicans leading the way they are will make it easier for them to win but it won't be Chuck Schumer Democrats. They are pathetic. Low energy. Even Hakeem Jeffries. He's been brainwashed by the liberal elites in Washington. We need more guys like the NYC Mayor Ramdani.

Schumer is an idiot. We clearly need to go younger and who does he endorse last week? Maine's 77 year old termed out governnor.

He is not listening and he doesn't have a clue. It's like Biden. Get him out of there!

Just what your Cult needs…….more Islamic commies.

 

[Nostra]

Republicans demand Democrats sign on or they will shut down the government. And they refuse to make ANY changes to the bill. This has never been done before. Zero compromise? Is that the art of the deal? Then no deal.

Trump doesn't seem like a good negotiator.

Lies. CRs are for funding things already negotiated and voted into law. They are not for new projects and spending, Stupid.

Schumer shut down the government, along with the rest of your Cult in the Senate.

 

[Nostra]

Remind me again who the Speaker of the House is? And which party is it again that controls both houses of Congress and The White House?

Look it up yourself, Simp. It’s not my job to educate you.

 

[Nostra]

Sorry, but you've bent us over for 10 months. Now we have some power and you're going to give us something. That's how this works. You can't be this ignorant?

Sorry stupid, you are full of shit.


A CR is simply an appropriation of funds for programs that have already been negotiated, voted on, passed, and signed into law.

This is not a place to try to start new spending or programs. In fact, new spending is PROHIBITED in a CR.


Summary

The program activities of most federal agencies are generally funded on an annual basis through the enactment of regular appropriations acts. When those annual appropriations acts are not enacted by the beginning of the fiscal year (October 1), one or more continuing appropriations acts (commonly known as continuing resolutions or CRs) may be enacted to provide temporary funding to continue certain programs and activities until action on the regular appropriations acts is completed.

There are six main features of CRs.

First, CRs have provided funding for certain activities (coverage), which are typically specified with reference to the prior fiscal year's appropriations acts.

Second, CRs provide budget authority for a specified duration of time. This duration may be as short as a single day or as long as the remainder of the fiscal year.

Third, in recent practice, CRs have typically provided funds based on an overall funding raterather than in specified amounts.

Fourth, the use of budget authority provided in the CR has been prohibited for new activities not funded in the previous fiscal year.

Fifth, the duration and amount of funds in the CR, and purposes for which they may be used for specified activities, may be adjusted through anomalies.

Sixth, legislative provisions—which create, amend, or extend other laws—have been included in some instances.


https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R46595

 

[Nostra]

 

[schmidlap]

Debunked? My report states illegals can't now get free health care.

Yes. Some Republicans lied about Democrats demanding it, and some stupid people mindlessly parroted the lie.​

Fact Check: Democrats didn't shut down government to fund healthcare for illegal aliens​

Republicans make false claim about free health care to 'illegal immigrants'​

No, Democrats didn’t shut down the government to give health care to 'illegal immigrants' ​

Objective folks get it.

Independents hold Trump and Republicans responsible for the shutdown by a 2-1 margin

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/30/trump-shutdown-blame-poll/

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[the watcher]

I don't know why they are resisting food stamps and subsided health care, it's obvious we can't live without it. It is part of our culture now, and an accepted career path, so why the drama? We must face reality.

 

[kyzr]

I don't know why they are resisting food stamps and subsided health care, it's obvious we can't live without it. It is part of our culture now, and an accepted career path, so why the drama? We must face reality.

Assistance should not be a lifelong freebie. Able-bodied need to find jobs.
The BBB is about to tell those able to work they need to work.

 

[Cellblock2429]

Republicans must let Obamacare subsidies expire, even if it costs them | Opinion

If Republicans can't muster the backbone to let these subsidies expire now, the subsidized level of spending will become the status quo forever.

www.usatoday.com

The government shutdown remains at a standstill, with the issue at the center being that Democrats demand that Republicans pass extensions for subsidies of the Affordable Care Act.

It makes no sense, I thought it was called the AFFORDABLE Care Act. If it is so affordable, why are subsidies needed?

The dems have some explainin' to do.

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[Cellblock2429]

Assistance should not be a lifelong freebie. Able-bodied need to find jobs.
The BBB is about to tell those able to work they need to work.

/----/ I think the democRATs are starting to crack. Expect a clean cr soon. It's just my humble opinion.

 

[sealybobo]

It is communities like this that worship Trump.

Why would he want to change anything?

- although a slick $300,000,000, 90,000 square feet of glitz in Owsley would have made for a nifty day care center.

I read an article a long time ago about how these Kentucky poor are duped. They say Democrats will take away their freedoms. So rather than have social safety nets, good schools, affordable and accessible healthcare, they choose freedom. Democrats want to take your guns!

So they go without. Without hospitals nearby, without teeth, healthcare.

They are ignorant about what government can do for them. And they don't realize they don't pay for it. We do. The rest of us. Typically blue states pay more federal taxes than red states. And red states take more.

 

[kyzr]

/----/ I think the democRATs are starting to crack. Expect a clan cr soon. It's just my humble opinion.

On Monday Thune needs to tell the democrats, the shutdown ends today, either you vote for this clean CR, or we go nuclear and then pass the clean CR. Choose.

 

[JWBooth]

On Monday Thune needs to tell the democrats, the shutdown ends today, either you vote for this clean CR, or we go nuclear and then pass the clean CR. Choose.

Great idea, keep them Joe Biden spending priorities chugging along.

 

[leftwinger]

It is spending already approved by DEM the recent 12 mo but now it's not OK for two more months? Huh?