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As of tonight, the White House and lawmakers failed to come to a resolution or agreement on government funding. As such, the federal government is now in shutdown.

Essential workers and service members will be forced to work without pay. Agencies will likely furlough employees, suspending them without pay until the shutdown ceases.

Mazie Hirono (D, Hawaii) says “The republicans can end the shutdown by giving healthcare back to the American people.” Democrats are pushing largely for hundreds of billions of funding to return to healthcare programs that support a large portion of Americans, including the Affordable Care Act subsidies that expire this year.

Source: WSJ, CNN
 
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So, this is some of sort of strike/walkout, but coming directly from the government? Never understood this at all, not even now.

For how long can this be kept functionally-speaking, and considering the government is the main form of order and law enforcement?

I'm asking this as we can agree police officers are essential, they will also be -literally- forced to work without payment as they're also public servants as well as the government -office- workers, or they're not included -their working level(s)- in such shutdown?

Please someone, care to explain this to me? Thanks in advance.
 
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CMDreamer said:
So, this is some of sort of strike/walkout, but coming directly from the government? Never understood this at all, not even now.

For how long can this be kept functionally-speaking, and considering the government is the main form of order and law enforcement?

I'm asking this as we can agree police officers are essential, they will also be -literally- forced to work without payment as they're also public servants as well as the government -office- workers, or they're not included -their working level(s)- in such shutdown?

Please someone, care to explain this to me? Thanks in advance.
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Dark_Ansem said:
It happens when the two main parties can't agree on how to spend money
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In this case, it happens when a democrat wins a special election that would put the number required to successfully petition the release of the Epstein files.
 
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pustal said:
In this case, it happens when a democrat wins a special election that would put the number required to successfully petition the release of the Epstein files.
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Any reliable source? Would like to delve deeper into this. Information is power.
 
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CMDreamer said:
Any reliable source? Would like to delve deeper into this. Information is power.
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One would say basic deduction, that I could not point out to a source as the republicans would never admit such a thing, and could only point to opinion pieces like this one... That is, until Ted Cruz's Freudian slip came to the rescue:

Reualed said:
Meanwhile the definitely not pedo party


Either that's a really bad misspeak. Or the worst Freudian slip I just heard.
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Protect the pedophiles and yet transgender people are the problem.

And these are the same people that accuse the *in Trump's voice "Radical Left" for giving these people a chance to redeem themselves, when they should be incarcerated. 🤣🤣🤣

The nonsense continues, America is a petri-dish of tomfoolery and a cavalcade of fuck-ups.

And how can you blame the radical left for the shutdown when you control the House and the Senate? 🤣🤣🤣
 
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They shut down over funding debates…
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gamefan5 said:
Unfortunately not the first time.

*Cough US-MEXICO Border wall nonsense back in 2018*cough

for fucking 35 days where 800 000 employees were either furloughed or forced to work without pay.
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It's not the first, but it does affect my job, which is annoying.
 
Now we see if Trump goes through with his blackmail of firing more government workers.

At this point though, he was going to fire them anyways, he's just weakly trying to use them as a bargaining chip.
 
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