Partial Government Shutdown Assured

Breaking news:House lawmakers left the Capitol Friday night without passing a budget agreement, ensuring funding for several key government agencies will lapse at midnight.

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We will enter into a government shutdown at midnight. We don't know how long it will last, but we've been through this before so we know what to expect - There will be some inconvenience, employees will be furloughed/asked to work without pay, and it will cost us a bunch of money, but critical operations will still function.

Who knows, we might even learn that not all that government is necessary.

We've all been through this in recent memory, we know what effects it will have.

Trump shutdown 2018. He coined it and he's going to own it. Quite a follow up to today's stock plunge again, a great note to end the year on.

@HoolaHoopMan: "He coined it and he's going to own it."

I'd say there's about a 100% chance that he will try to shift the blame to the Democrats.

You win!

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@mattbbpl: We all knew he would do this.

So you have a government shutdown over the weekend and during the holidays.

Sounds like standard government operating procedure where I live.

Trump is the best president of the US I've seen in my lifetime. Democrats want to make America a shithole. That's why they don't want a wall. Everything Trump says is true and they know it. Democrats want to flood this country with foreigners. They don't care what real, legal American citizens think about it. Trump says what most Americans think.

Shutdown our own goverment to express pent up racism. It's a terrible day for the country.

trump sucks but I doubt this matters to his base. He just has to toss them more red meat and they're happy.

So, Trumps going to shut down the government to express racism and blacks can't even take a knee at a ballgame? What kind of America is this? I'll never support the Republicans after this ever again.

Liberals need to realize Trump doesnt keep his promises but he does make good on his threats.

@Mercenary848: But in this case Trump is handing the Democrats a winning issue. It's very much a winning issue for the Democrats to oppose Trump's wall, the midterms proved that quite succinctly.

True that, but I always harken back to the travel; good people always have to suffer because of his tantrums.

Trump Thinks Democrats Have an Immigration Problem. Is He Right?

@Master_Live: Trump gets his information from places that do little more than confirm his own beliefs, that is to say Fox News. With an ever shrinking cabinet and a penchant for loyalty to Trump above all other qualities for who he picks to replace people he's going to be saying more and more things like this that are not only wrong, but obviously wrong to an increasing number of people.

@Serraph105: That's a bit of a microcosm for the electorate as a while, isn't it? He has access to some of the best inside information resource in the world, yet he turns to (and implements policy on) talking heads that confirm his biases.

Republicans can always change thier insane, evil ways and spend money on healthcare instead. Yeah....right.

Love the nonchalant attitude. Shutdown? What shutdown? Off we go.

I agree 100%. Healthcare and immigration, the two things democrats are more riled on.

Sort of off-topic but in-line with the GOPs AMAZING ability to manage money...

Just over from the Faux News comments section. Some Republipoor was trying to tell me that I'm a liberal mooch, stealing his tax dollars. Turns out he works at a cabinet shop for 15 dollars an hour while his wife stays home and takes care of his 4 kids...

But I'm stealing his tax dollars 'cause I'm a filthy liberal.

@plageus900: "Just over from the Faux News comments section"

Oh man, why do that to yourself?

@mattbbpl: I go there for the 24/7 comedy show. Periodically I'll see some Trumpette talk about how he bleeds for his money, only to have it taken away by the 'no job' liberals. That's when my blood pressure rises.

That sounds like poor choices on your part. Better take care of yourself. Maybe learn how to better deal with stress and avoid stressful situations. :P

How do you survive on 15 dollars an hour with 4 kids?

Schumer is the one who shut down the government. Trumps has done nothing official to shut down the government.

trump owned the shut down. From his own mouth. Or did Fox not run that program so their base is in the dark yet again.

trump refused to sign the funding measure. How that is the fault of anyone else is beyond me. Such mental gymnastics to avoid buyers remorse.

The entire government should be fired. President and congress. Utter garbage.

He has not yet been given a funding bill top sign.

@JimB: He would have, but he refused to sign the one the House passed (and that he previously said he'd sign). You're ignoring that fact so you don't have to face reality.

Just a friendly reminder that Trump said the president should be fired for government shutdowns, which we have had 3 of this year.

I don't even want to know. I make over double that and about half my money goes to one kid.

He didn't mean that of course. :P

I might be wrong but didn't a surprising number of GOP vote "against" the wall too?

@horgen: I don't know. He's probably on welfare. Most southern Republicans are.

Only fools like yourself buy into this crap. Add this to the list of conspiracy drivel you swallow whole, maybe with it shut down it won't add to the 211 trillion in debt!!

It's odd to see a once bipartisan issue (border security) get so politically divisive. Then again, I live in a state where Californian politicians care more about protecting criminals rather than victims and law enforcement. Seems like upside-down world to me.

Most people don't want a Trump Tower Wall, that Mexico was supposudlly paying for, but the taxpayers are now being asked to. Most of illegal immigration is people overstaying visas anyway. Let's be sensible here.

Um no that's not accurate. No one is for illegal immigration. But wasting money on the wall is a no go.

how much do you think he's given to the Wall GoFundMe?

didn't the senate pass a bipartisan continuing resolution that included over a billion for border security?

idk, what you mean about the California thing. Seems like they're carrying out policies supported by the people that voted for them

All delivered to Trump because he owns this shutdown.

People want border security, which was in the original bill Trump didn't sign. What we don't want is an obscene wall that epitomizes the worst in all of us. Take your strawman arguments elsewhere.