There won't be a government shutdown this month. Republicans supported Mike Johnson's continuing resolution only barely, 127-93, but Democrats joined up with the non-insane Republicans to give the CR a bipartisan 336-95 victory in the House. It's expected to pass the Senate later this week.
The CR lasts through late January, which means that at least a third of the budget year will go by with no cuts in spending.
"Democrats joined up with the non-insane Republicans to give the CR a bipartisan 336-95 victory in the House. "
Oh, please, Kevin. Given what we know about the House Republican caucus, there no way that all 127 who voted yes are sane. Not even close.
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Yeah the phrasing should be slightly less insane or not totally insane
The best Kabuki is Washington Kabuki.
Once again weenie Demo-losers have done what the manly-man Republicans have told them to do, since almost half of Republicans were just too honest and pure to vote for such a devil's brew of compromise.
Only by returning Republicans to their rightful positions of power atop all branches of government can we avoid such a spectacle of failure in the future and Make America Great Again.
Also something something Nancy Pelosi something Hillary Kamala border something protect our children.
Best part-- the laddered CR has deadlines of January 19 and February 2! So it comes up again, and again, and again-- and then on Groundhog Day.
Either a wicked sense of humor or complete obliviousness, and I know which of the two I'd say it is.
I wonder what the long term strategy here is? Eventually they have do something, are they thinking they will be in a stronger position in January or February? That a shutdown closer to the 2024 election will work out better for them? There has to be some kind of calculation.
I wonder what the long term strategy here is?
I doubt there's much of a "long term strategy" on Johnson's part beyond simply trying to hang on to his job. A truly long(ish) term CR—one that takes us to 2025—wouldn't just cause Freedom Caucus shouting and invective. It would likely generate a leadership challenge. That's because those barbarians don't want good, orderly government. They want to create havoc and destruction, especially given the potential for economic collateral damage that might benefit their God Emperor in the general election.
Actually putting the government on a stable, long term trajectory would be viewed (perhaps correctly) as excessively "pro-Biden."
"Long-term" for a congresscritter may be different than it is for you or me. The rationale is supposedly that the more important stuff gets dealt with sooner if they can focus on that and let the other stuff slide for a couple more weeks, which of course takes us to Groundhog Day and waking up to the same old stuff yet again.
They say they want "regular order" but how's that supposed to work? Realistically they won't be back from the holidays until the 7th so they've given themselves a whole two weeks to write half the appropriations bills, pass them out of committees, get them on the floor, debate amendments, and pass them (if they do). And then the senate has to do the same, and in the same two-week period. Unless the HR just starts with the senate bills, which they might.
Anyway, it doesn't look to me like they've set up anything like the time they need for the regular order some of them are crying out for so it's very likely to be lather, rinse, repeat with CRs. Maybe they could come close to working something out among themselves by Easter, but by that time the poison pill provisions from the last grand settlement bill will probably have kicked in.
And that could be the one thing that lights a real fire under our "Lafayette Escadrille, clean hands, pure heart" (shoutout to Robert Penn Warren) newbie speaker, once he either remembers or is reminded of these provisions. IIRC they involve draconian cuts to military funding, and Barksdale AFB is one of the big entities in his district.
What a fate to be cursed with a tiny majority made up of people who hate each other and despise governance. I mean the country. Johnson doesn't concern me that much, to be honest.
The other replies ignore the fact that the decision maker in the Republican party is Trump, so the main question is what Trump thinks will help him.
He probably think that a shutdown now will help Biden, but want to leave himself the option to do it later.
No idea what the point of the "ladder".
It's a bad deal. Republicans, despite what they say, are still not funding Israel and Ukraine.
Slightly OT: According to Ian Bremmer, Biden has in fact started pulling strings on funding of Israel to get it to ease off the siege of Gaza and to open up access and aid.
And your first paragraph may be an answer to @Art Eclectic's question. The CR they just passed keeps them tied up for a month after New Year's on budget basics and might just happen to keep them so busy they couldn't possibly take up supplemental issues like those. And that can repeat for as long as they can keep up these two-to-six-week CRs (in this case eight weeks that's really two weeks operationally).
Or who knows, having now put off the basic appropriations they might be able to sneak in those supplementals. But they have to want to.
Or think they (i.e. Trump) can get something in return.
I think there's always been demonization. I'm just old enough to remember Joe McCarthy. I think the difference is the lowering of guardrails and the growing competition among media outlets.
By the first, I mean the end of equal time requirements, plus perhaps the FCC cutting back on oversight. (John Mitchell and Katy Graham's tits in a wringer )
And in the old days the mainstream media was 3 TV networks, a handful of major papers, and 2-3 newsweeklies; each of which had effectively a cartel with some standards. With the rise of cable, talk radio, and then the internet, everyone is competing for eyeballs and money, a competition which favors extreme voices.