there’s a bunch of medicaid cuts and shit in the proposed budget so it’s being filibustered, and because we have the ingenious system of “not just re-using last year’s budget” everything just grinds to a halt
the repubs have been trying super hard to twist this into “the left is holding the government hostage until we give illegal immigrants free hrt” and i think it’s not working, the “everything is the president’s fault” level of political engagement in this country seems to be holding strong
The sad part is it wasn’t always this way and the government always paid even when the budget wasn’t set in stone. As with a lot of things not working, this problem started with Nixon deciding he would punish programs he didn’t like by defunding them. Also it is hard not to blame the GOP when they control all branches of government- you’d need to be sleeping to ignore that or just delusional
Can someone briefly explain why the gov. shutdown started? There’s so much news lately I missed the exact cause of this
there’s a bunch of medicaid cuts and shit in the proposed budget so it’s being filibustered, and because we have the ingenious system of “not just re-using last year’s budget” everything just grinds to a halt
the repubs have been trying super hard to twist this into “the left is holding the government hostage until we give illegal immigrants free hrt” and i think it’s not working, the “everything is the president’s fault” level of political engagement in this country seems to be holding strong
The sad part is it wasn’t always this way and the government always paid even when the budget wasn’t set in stone. As with a lot of things not working, this problem started with Nixon deciding he would punish programs he didn’t like by defunding them. Also it is hard not to blame the GOP when they control all branches of government- you’d need to be sleeping to ignore that or just delusional