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Horror! U.S. Government Stays Open! (Financial Times)www.ft.com/content/766ccaac-bdd2-43aa-9107-221190ee70be
763 sats \ 13 comments \ @denlillaapan 8h news
Oh well, what a tragedy.
Good if they solve their shit; good if would have stayed shut.
Technically Congress missed the midnight deadline to head off the shutdown, but not by enough to cause disruption. The federal government had ceased preparing for a shutdown before the Senate voted and no agencies halted operations, the White House said.
The bill that passed did not include any change to the debt ceiling, despite president-elect Donald Trump’s call for lawmakers to use the legislation to scrap the mechanism, which limits the federal government’s borrowing.
Pathetic drama every time
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30 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 6h
Pathetic drama every time
The public is largely dumb but the media and politicians know exactly what is going on. Such a joke.
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68 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 5h
shrug
It seems to play out the same way every time. I'm not sure why anyone thought a shutdown would actually have happened.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 8h
Maybe we wont be seeing shutdowns for the next 4 years if Trump is able to organize everything correctly.
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10 sats \ 3 replies \ @Shugard 8h
Would have been so much fun if Trump had gotten his way and there had been no bailout.
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 5h
I would have preferred a government shutdown until the inauguration. Let the new administration handle the clean-up, the firings and the forced resignations. They are going to do it anyway if they produce on their promises. They could have had a head start that way.
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Shugard 4h
I would have preferred a government shutdown until the inauguration.
That would have been fun! A broken government for over a month.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 4h
Yes, the bellyaching would have been non-stop and at the top of THEIR voices.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @OT 4h
Doesn't this happen every 6 months of so?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan OP 4h
Typ, pretty much.
Wikipedia said 76 times since 1961 for a neat 1.25 a year
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10 sats \ 3 replies \ @oklar 8h
I don't really understand the premise of these shutdowns. Is this US tradition or a new thing?
The horror.. The horror!
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @denlillaapan OP 7h
not a new thing
Happens every now and again, on average once every 1.5 years or so https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_debt_ceiling#:~:text=The%20debt%20ceiling%20was%20raised,times%20from%202001%20to%202016.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @oklar 7h
Ah, I think I was missing a piece of the puzzle of why it occurs, thanks.
I was thinking why is it not possible to do a PR/merge and get all the state departments to update their codebase without a shutdown.
So, it's feature specific to the presidential system, not a bug?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan OP 4h
I miscalculated! 76 times in 63 years is of course MORE than once a year.
Thank god I don't teach maths @Shugard
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