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ipython ◴[] No.45767903[source]
My concern is that we will end up in a state of perpetual government "shutdown". The republicans, instead of reopening the entire government, will simply choose agencies to fund in order to keep the pain felt by the American people just low enough so they don't get fired (ala office space).

Once that happens, Congress has basically iced itself out. Oversight from unfriendly government agencies? No worries, they're shut down because they're unpaid. And clearly this demonstrates the executive needs more power, since Congress is completely frozen. Finally, the Supreme Court is no longer an issue either, since that's not funded either.

Someone tell me why this couldn't happen.

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rogerrogerr ◴[] No.45767930[source]
I think if this was the plan, the right would be insisting on something more outlandish than a clean CR.
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sigmar ◴[] No.45768069[source]
It's double speak to call it a "clean CR" when there was just a huge bill changing a ton of tax code, budget, and increasing ICE's budget by 10x.[1] Passing the CR would have approved those spending changes as if they were in an appropriations bill.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Big_Beautiful_Bill_Act

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1. dionian ◴[] No.45768146[source]
with a clean CR we can open the government temporarily and pass a budget, right? the whole CR thing is terrible, we need single subject bills
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2. yks ◴[] No.45768275[source]
the government doesn't need to be opened for a budget to pass though, "clean CR" is not a prerequisite for anything
3. _DeadFred_ ◴[] No.45768614[source]
They aren't negotiating. They went home. Their job is to come up with a budget but once this didn't go through they just... went home.

BTW the not passed continuing resolution only goes through November 21st.