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Topic	The United States is shut down?
Zeus 01/20/18 12:24:12 PM #22:	On the plus side, at least Trump isn't going to be as petty as Obama and shut down parks. Otherwise I miss the days when we had a government which didn't try to force through non-spending issues by derailing spending bills. Hirokey123 posted... It is and I quote this...IMPOSSIBLE for the minority to cause a shut down when the majority has control of the House, Senate, and White House. The ONLY way for a shut down to happen under that circumstance is if the Majority refuses and guess what they did. It's clearly not impossible, because here we are. Usually minority parties don't the ability to have enough influence to force a shutdown Tropic_Sunset posted... RCtheWSBC posted... https://www.npr.org/2018/01/19/578985305/open-or-closed-heres-what-happens-in-a-partial-government-shutdown And fear not: Lawmakers will continue to receive their pay Looks like I was up all night for nothing. Plus government workers get backpay anyway. iirc, even some of the ones who didn't work during the last shutdown still got compensation. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:894431435] in The United... [t:76222584]...</cite> <quote>On the plus side, at least Trump isn't going to be as petty as Obama and shut down parks. Otherwise I miss the days when we had a government which didn't try to force through non-spending issues by derailing spending bills. <cite>Hirokey123 posted...</cite> <quote>It is and I quote this...IMPOSSIBLE for the minority to cause a shut down when the majority has control of the House, Senate, and White House. The ONLY way for a shut down to happen under that circumstance is if the Majority refuses and guess what they did.</quote> It's clearly not impossible, because here we are. Usually minority parties don't the ability to have enough influence to force a shutdown <cite>Tropic_Sunset posted...</cite> <quote><cite>RCtheWSBC posted...</cite> <quote>https://www.npr.org/2018/01/19/578985305/open-or-closed-heres-what-happens-in-a-partial-government-shutdown</quote> <quote>And fear not: Lawmakers will continue to receive their pay</quote> Looks like I was up all night for nothing.</quote> Plus government workers get backpay anyway. iirc, even some of the ones who didn't work during the last shutdown still got compensation. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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