Ready for a government shutdown?

Looking more and more likely.

https://www.newsmax.com/us/governmen...23/id/1227461/

This one may even be a little different.

The Office of Management and Budget this year asked federal agencies to update their contingency plans for how they will operate if funding runs out when the fiscal year ends Sept. 30. In past shutdowns functions like air-traffic control and law enforcement have continued, while financial regulators have furloughed the vast majority of their staffs.

Those plans were often shared weeks in advance heading into past shutdowns. But as of Monday, the current versions have not been widely shared with Congress or the public and White House web page dedicated to those plans was blank.

If PRO is the opposite of CON, what's the opposite of PROGRESS?

Why can't they pass the budget that covers an entire year from October 1st to September 30th?


I remember the days when a balanced budget was passed and it paid for the entire year for the entire U.S. Government to function including all branches of the Armed Forces.


Google shows the last time the Federal Government passed a yearly budget was 1996 for the year 1997.


2001 was the last time the Federal Government took in more money than it spent and that was also the last time it had a balanced budget.

OMG yes.
Maybe the overly obnoxious bullshit will get a lot quieter for a bit.

Not many of those days
The United States has had only two periods of balanced budgets or surpluses in the last 60 years:
1969: President Lyndon B. Johnson's administration achieved a budget surplus in 1969.
1998–2001: The budget was balanced during the Clinton administration.



Since the fiscal year 1977, Congress has only passed all 12 of its regular appropriations bills by the October 1 deadline four times: fiscal years 1977, 1989, 1995, and 1997.

The U.S. Congress last passed all required appropriations bills on time for the 1997 fiscal year, which began on October 1, 1996.

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Google shows the last time the Federal Government passed a yearly budget was 1996 for the year 1997.


2001 was the last time the Federal Government took in more money than it spent and that was also the last time it had a balanced budget. Originally Posted by CG2014

Can we have a maggie tell us which president was on duty when that happened? To my recollection, none have ever admitted or given credit to the one in office at the time.

Not many of those days
The United States has had only two periods of balanced budgets or surpluses in the last 60 years:
1969: President Lyndon B. Johnson's administration achieved a budget surplus in 1969.
1998–2001: The budget was balanced during the Clinton administration.

... Originally Posted by RX792P

OH! You had to let the cat out of the bag.

Trump preps...
Think of all the money 'we' will save.

The White House is telling agencies to prepare large-scale firings of federal workers if the government shuts down next week.

In a memo released Wednesday night, the Office of Management and Budget said agencies should consider a reduction in force for federal programs whose funding would lapse next week, is not otherwise funded and is “not consistent with the President’s priorities.” That would be a much more aggressive step than in previous shutdowns, when federal workers not deemed essential were furloughed but returned to their jobs once Congress approved government spending.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-tr...b0bba54aaa6aca