And THAT May Mean a Government Shut Down for some time….
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Democratic House Leader Jeffires has problems with his party people as does Houase Republican Speaker Johnson with his party also….
Senate Democrats are talking this also…..
Two Democratic senators said on Sunday that their party would not rule out forcing the federal government to shut down to stop President Trump’s legally questionable actions in dismantling federal agencies.
“We are in a crisis right now, and Democrats will use every tool possible to protect Americans,” Senator Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey, said on CNN. If Congress does not pass a new spending bill by March 14, the federal government will shut down.
Senator Andy Kim, Democrat of New Jersey, echoed Mr. Booker during an interview with NBC. If Democrats do not supply the votes for continued federal funding — signaling their opposition to Mr. Trump’s unilateral budget cuts, staff firings and restructuring of federal agencies — it would be Mr. Trump and Republicans who would be responsible for the government shutdown, Mr. Kim said.
“I would be the last person to want to get to that stage,” Mr. Kim said of a possible government shutdown. “But we are at a point where we are basically on the cusp of a constitutional crisis….
The two Democrats’ allusion to the government shutdown in March reflects the limited options that their party has in checking Republicans, who are in control of all levers of federal government. It also shows their willingness to use the March funding deadline as an important bargaining tool to limit Mr. Trump’s sweeping action in tearing apart federal agencies funded and established by Congress….
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Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the House minority leader, said last week that he was willing to workwith Republicans in passing a similar bipartisan spending bill, but only if partisan measures for defunding certain agencies were “choked off” of that bill.
However, Mr. Johnson indicated on Sunday that he had no interest in pushing through a bipartisan bill. He said he would instead work toward a Republican spending package that all 218 members of his caucus could agree on….
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Some members of the House Republican caucus are still skeptical that they can agree on a bill by March 14. Representative Chip Roy, Republican of Texas and the policy chair of the far-right Freedom Caucus, said on Friday that chances were “pretty low” that the Republicans could agree on a spending package by the March deadline…
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