Read: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/04/government-shutdown-trump-funding-freeze-00202533
While the Democratic leader in the House demands that Trump’s funding freeze be “choked off” as part of any funding agreement, Republican lawmakers say it will be Democrats who take the fall for causing a funding lapse if they hold that line. And so the shutdown blame game begins again. The exasperated Democrats sitting opposite Cole at the negotiating table say any good faith agreement with their GOP counterparts is meaningless if Trump disregards the will of Congress by using “impoundment” to withhold funding they pass into law. “If the White House is not going to honor an agreement and use impoundment, then it is hard to come to agreement,” Washington Sen. Patty Murray , the Senate’s top Democratic appropriator, said in a brief interview Tuesday.
That is only 37 days away. The government shutdown that had been scheduled for December 21, 2024 has been postponed until March 15, 2025. Aggravating factors:
1. Trump wants the debt ceiling also included in any deal.
2. Trump wants to make spending cuts and use impoundment. So ironically, the Democrats who don't want spending cuts, will refuse to make a deal, which will result in the shutdown. They don't have any leverage here.
3. The hard core right, I guess that includes me, wants further spending cuts and will reject a compromise bill. Meanwhile, the Democrats won't support it. So the votes aren't there.
4. Also, don't forget the BTFP will expire on March 10, 2025, which may cause a banking crisis because many banks are reliant on it.
Shut it all down!
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