Washington: “The U.S. government shutdown is getting worse and longer as lawmakers are forced to decide whether or not they can keep their jobs. It’s a standoff that appears to be getting more and more desperate.
We’re in the middle of one of the longest shutdowns in history where the government is refusing to pay its bills. It was over last month after the House passed bills that were supposed to fund the government for two and a half weeks. Then, the House passed its own bill that would have funded the government for only one more week. This is what has made the shutdown so difficult to understand as the process continues.
It’s a standoff between the Obama and Congress. The House passed a bill in the Senate to fund the government, but they said they wouldn’t sign it into law until the House passed a new bill. The Senate is now taking it up, but they are also asking the House to stop the budget process for the government. This is the same process that led to the shutdown. The House has three days to pass a new bill or the government shuts down.
So that’s why they’re asking the House to stop the government. We can only assume that the federal government is in a shutdown because the House won’t vote on the Senate bill. And the Senate is asking for the House to stop the government.
This is where we see the difference between the two parties. If you are on the Democratic side, you are going to have a lot of pressure to get that government shutdown over with as quickly as possible. And that is what is causing the House to ask the Senate to stop the government, because if this bill goes through, this government shutdown will go on for a little while longer.
House Speaker John Boehner is already trying to spin this as some kind of crisis, but I am not convinced that this is. The Senate bill is just a stopgap that takes care of a few things. The House Republicans have been trying to get this government shutdown over with for weeks. They have been blocking bills they feel are unfair to the government, and that’s basically the only thing they want to do now. But there is no crisis that could be caused by the government shut down.
The House is already trying to pass a government shutdown bill anyway. That probably won’t get much love from the President either. But this bill, which is being called the “Fix the Debt Act” or “Fix the Debt Wall Street Bailout Act” is a watered-down version of the Senate bill that would only extend part of the debt limit. The Senate bill, which passed the Senate last night, was a compromise between the two parties. The House bill also passed over the weekend.
The Fix the Debt Act is a Republican bill that would only do one thing… extend the debt limit. If this bill passes, it means that the government will keep spending money it doesn’t have to pay back. And in a way, this is good news for the Democrats. If this is true, the Democrats can’t blame Republicans for continuing to hold them up and refuse to give them the money.
Of course, the Fix the Debt Act is going to bring the debt ceiling back up to the old level. We still don’t know the full details yet, but it seems like a huge increase in the debt ceiling is the only way to stop the government from being able to continue spending. After all, the government doesn’t have the money to make up for the money it’s already spent.
I think that what we need is a “pay-the-rich” amendment to the constitution. Because while the current system is a problem, we need to change it. We need to give the government the power to just say, “You can’t borrow more money because it’s impossible to spend it, and we can’t spend it because it’s impossible for the government to do so.