US Congress searches for stopgap funding deal amid rancor

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Reuters

September 16, 2024 6:04 AM EDT Updated 4 hours ago


WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress returns from a weekend recess on Monday and will attempt to broker a deal on legislation to temporarily fund a range of federal programs, with no clear path and just 15 days remaining before money runs out. Unless a stopgap spending bill is sent to President Joe Biden by midnight Sept. 30, the end of the current fiscal year, many agency operations will cease with thousands of federal workers furloughed for lack of funds.

The Democratic-controlled Senate re-opens for business on Monday, while the Republican-controlled House of Representatives returns on Tuesday. Last week, House Speaker Mike Johnson had to abandon his attempt to pass a spending bill when it became clear that he did not have enough support for passage from his rank-and-file Republicans.

Republican infighting was on full display on Sunday, with Representatives Bryan Steil and Cory Mills bickering during an interview on Fox News' Maria Bartiromo's show. "Shut the government down or shut the border down to protect our elections," Mills said, as he stood by his opposition to his leadership's bill. He said the measure hurts the U.S. military by not providing the Pentagon with full-year appropriations.

Mills also noted that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has made clear he would not bring up a temporary spending bill that has the controversial, unrelated Republican legislation attached to it requiring that people provide proof of citizenship to register to vote. Non-citizen voting already is illegal in federal elections.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-congress-searches-stopgap-funding-deal-amid-rancor-2024-09-16/

[Midnight Writer]

1. The Party of Ultimate Chaos.

[LiberalArkie]

2. provide proof of citizenship to register to vote. RealID of carry notarized birth certificate?

Birth certificate does not prove that the name on the certificate is actually the person voting. A regular drivers license may not mean that the person in the DL is a citizen if it is an old DL originally issued years ago. And even a realID may not be valid for voting if the person has moved and not gotten a corrected DL with the new address.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. RealID is an irritant

[LiberalArkie]

4. Yea, but it is accurate. In Arkansas you need a certified Birth Certificate, your old drivers license

2 bills with your name on it and location and social security card..

Location is more than likely to prove where you can vote (precinct etc).

I feel that if it was required to vote that the Republicans would never win anymore.

[kimbutgar]

5. Why can't they just do a continuing resolution to fund the government at present levels until the end of the year?

Oh I know the orange menace said no he needs this as a campaign crudgel to attack immigrants

[BumRushDaShow]

7. They can do something along that line

but the GOP loons want to do some kabuki theater instead.

I.e., Democrats want a "clean bill".

[Trenzalore]

6. Trump wants chaos.

They will shutdown the government

[pnwmom]

8. The Dems need to be SHOUTING that the R's are aiming to reduce the WOMEN's VOTE

because women who've ever changed their names are the largest group of people who will be affected by passage of the voter identification law (the SAVES act) that the R's are demanding.

The R's pretend this is all about keeping non-citizens from voting, but that is a problem that doesn't exist. The people who will be denied registration will be US citizens who will be forced to put together extra paperwork (not just a regular driver's license or ID card), often from multiple states, and at significant cost.

A House member recently called it a poll tax, which is correct. She just needs to take the next step and show the chief target is WOMEN, because married or divorced women make up the largest group of those who will have trouble registering under the SAVES Act.

And for the R's, this isn't a bug. Its a bonus.

[Fullduplexxx]

9. Fkg reuters Apparently doesn't understand how the United states government works

[AllaN01Bear]

10. no more negotiations with them. 30 years of this nonsense and nothing. git off yer duffs .

30 years .