The bill provides funding for the departments of Defense, Treasury, State, Health and Human Services, Labor, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, and Education through the remainder of the fiscal year on Sept. 30.
It also provides two weeks of stopgap funding for the Department of Homeland Security after the Senate stripped full-year funding for the agency in response to the killings of two U.S. citizens by federal immigration officers.
Now, Congress and the White House will turn to thorny negotiations over new guardrails on immigration enforcement in the DHS funding bill. Democrats insisted on separating out the DHS measure following enforcement actions in Minneapolis.
Republicans are failing so hard at governing that they are now shutting the government down during new times of the year. Conservative innovation right there.
Another shutdown in the books, fellas.
For October and November. Coinciding randomly with voting. Pure coincide. I’m sure.
How has a rule that leads to a government shutdown every time the 2 remaining parties disagree not been abolished long ago? This just doesn’t happen in a functional political system.
Was he able to do it without shitting himself? That’s the real question.
I didn’t know the senate did that.
