Government Shutdown

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(09-21-2023, 11:44 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: The insanely simplistic thinking from the left leaning posters in this thread is honestly mind boggling.  If a small group of GOP Rep's are holding up the budget then an equally small number of moderate Dems could step in and fill the gap, thus passing a budget.  So, no, this isn't the GOP shutting down the government, it's both parties shutting down the government.  Or are the Dems in the House just there to fill seats and whine on Twitter?

From what I skimmed last night, and I have not delved too deeply unfortunately, it seem the group is about 116 members?

FIVE members blocked bringing one deal to a vote, along with Democrats....though I did read somewhere that two may have changed their minds now on a slightly different proposal.

Democrats are not going to ever agree to billions in cuts to social services, including Social Security which has little to nothing to do with the debt, and no cuts to anything else.  That's not negotiating in good faith at all.

Nonetheless this is a GOP problem when McCarthy is cancelling votes because he doesn't have the votes.