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President Joe Biden summoned congressional leaders to the White House on Feb. 27, 2024, in a bid to avoid a government shutdown. Democrats and Republicans remain far apart on funding the government, as a group of hard-right lawmakers demands spending cuts and conservative policies such as new restrictions on abortion access as part of any agreement.

A short-term spending deal reached just a little over three months ago, which averted the last threatened shutdown, gave Congress two deadlines: March 1 and March 8, 2024, with different departments closing down if funding isn’t passed by each date.

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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

SEPARATE THE CHURCH FROM THE STATE

All of this shit is insane.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

if they refuse, can I set the church on fire?

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Become ungovernable, as the Founding Fathers intended.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 0 points 8 months ago

Wouldn't even matter at this point. Repubs already make the "jizz plus egg equals baby" without even mentioning jeebus these days

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The GOP are being attention seeking bitches again. After they backed out of their own immigration bill it's insane to see them try this again.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

And they keep getting attention and just get worse.

[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Watch, the “last minute deal” will be the same one the Speaker of the House rejected already.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

it's almost like we've seen this episode before.

I hate reruns.

[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] Hotspur@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

Haha I fully clicked on these expecting more commentary about shutdowns. Almost LOLed at the RL Stine.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

united rentals

Do you think they'll let you addon a few upgrades?

[–] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Part of the playbook. We can just ignore this and not call it news anymore. In the last day "we made a historical deal".

[–] Hoomod@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

"we have done the bare minimum our job requires, it took everything we had"