Govt. shutdown - 12/22/17 at 11:59 p.m.

You mean they won’t have a running count of deaths that are directly related to the tax bill?

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no way the GOP is going to let the walk off story for the weekend be a shutdown

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disappointed???

I wish for a shutdown - and use it to identify 'non-essential' government workers for termination.

The government shuts down every Friday at 5:00 pm and we all seem to survive it.

Pretty sure I'd still have to come to work.

Booming economy, corporations giddy over tax relief.. Consumer confidence at all time high.

Another great move by Dems to shut the government down over the issue of sheltering illegal aliens.

Let's see how this works out for them.

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Booming economy,

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, GDP growth was 3.2% in Q3. Booming is a bit strong.

The beauty of a shutdown right now is that this is already a dead time for a lot of federal offices.

It is the week between Christmas and New Years. There are already statute holidays declared and a bunch of people will have already taken leave anyway to take advantage of the short week.


The period between Veteran’s Day and MLK Day has so many holidays that you are unlikely to see any work done from November to January.

In general, are these government shutdowns a new product of the last 25 years or so, or is this something that has occurred through history? I don't recall it being a thing until the Clinton years. Then again, that's when I was old became enough to care about politics and pay attention so I've may have missed the earlier ones.

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In general, are these government shutdowns a new product of the last 25 years or so, or is this something that has occurred through history? I don't recall it being a thing until the Clinton years. Then again, that's when I was old became enough to care about politics and pay attention so I've may have missed the earlier ones

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There were a couple with Reagan too.

I am unaware of any before then.

This is a product of Congress and a President unable to get a budget passed, one way or another. It’s come to a head more in recent years precisely because Obama has no official budget but a series of continuing resolutions.


That’s not to say there weren’t budget battles between Clinton and Republicans for 6 years or W and Democrats for 2 years, but going 7 years with no official budget meant constant CRs in order to keep the money flowing.