Best time for the UAW to ramp up the strike, and for anyone else contemplating striking to do so. Push the remaining operating services to the edge and I guarantee the shutdown ends or you get more concessions.
I’d love to see the labor movement parlay this into a general strike.
File this under “the somewhat hidden costs of brinkmanship” along with the debt ceiling b.s. from a few months back.
OMB and a basically every agency they cover will spend tons of time (and thus money) doing prep work for an event that should never even be a real threat, were Congress able to govern even somewhat effectively. All that prep work happens instead of real mission work, not in addition. Just another waste that we can thank the GOP for.
There needs to be something done to stop this stupid game we keeping get into every year or other year. It should just run on auto-pilot if they can’t come to an agreement, this shouldn’t even be a valid political tactic to not do the fucking job they’re in Washington to do. In a sane world, the people initiating this would lose their seats after trying this once, but here we are…
Or incentivize it. When it goes to auto pilot, budgets increase with CPI automatically.
Or, when on auto pilot, the “entitlements” budget triples or something.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
While the House and Senate remain far apart on a spending deal, the federal government will soon formally initiate the process of preparing for a potential shutdown, participating in the mandatory but standard process of releasing shutdown guidance to agencies ahead of the September 30 funding deadline.
The standard procedure laying out the steps toward bringing non-essential government functions to a halt is about to get underway.
With a potential shutdown just one week away, that communication will be sent to agencies Friday, OMB officials told CNN.
Those plans include information on how many employees would get furloughed, which employees are essential and would work without pay (for example, air traffic controllers, Secret Service agents and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention laboratory staff), how long it would take to wind down operations in the hours before a shutdown and which activities would come to a halt.
The government shut down for 35 days, a record length, from December 2018 to January 2019 amid a congressional stalemate over funding for then-President Donald Trump’s border wall.
And in 2013, then-President Barack Obama presided over a 16-day partial government shutdown caused by a dispute over the Affordable Care Act and other budget disagreements.
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