Congress returns with just days to avoid shutdown

[mystery-ak]

Congress returns with just days to avoid shutdown
By Melanie Zanona - 02/05/18 06:00 AM EST

Republican lawmakers fresh off their annual GOP legislative retreat will be confronting an all-too-familiar problem when they return to Washington on Monday: avoiding a government shutdown.

GOP leaders are eyeing a six-week funding bill that would keep the government’s lights on until March 23. The measure could include sweeteners like funding for community health centers.

But even though leaders dismissed concerns that the government could close down again when current funding runs dry on Thursday, it’s still unclear whether frustrated defense hawks will go along with the plan to pass a funding bill without a boost for the military.

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http://thehill.com/policy/finance/372114-congress-returns-with-just-days-to-avoid-shutdown

[libertybele]

This is such crap ... how about we just pass a stinking budget for a change?  Include funding for a border wall, and the military and necessary funds to keep the government running and dump all the pork projects.  If the DEMS refuse -- then let them be the ones that once again shutdown the government...all this bargaining and bantering back and forth is ridiculous and nothing more than a horse and pony show.

[WingNot]

Same crap. Different day. 

[bilo]

This is such crap ... how about we just pass a stinking budget for a change?  Include funding for a border wall, and the military and necessary funds to keep the government running and dump all the pork projects.  If the DEMS refuse -- then let them be the ones that once again shutdown the government...all this bargaining and bantering back and forth is ridiculous and nothing more than a horse and pony show.

Even better end the filibuster in the Senate. The House keeps passing appropriation bills that sit in the Senate. It's obvious that the Senate is not functioning as it's supposed to and it's time to change things.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

Congress Returns with just days to avoid Republican Landslide in 2018.

[txradioguy]

So there is either going to be a shutdown this Thurs while I'm at Homestead AFB or a shutdown while I'm on my cruise in March.

I'm betting it will happen both times since neither party nor the President seem the least bit interested in passing a 12 month budget.