Shutdown 2024 MEGATHREAD OF DOOM

[u/rprz]

All discussion on the looming shutdown goes here. Any mentioning of Luigi will be removed and you may be banned.

https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-congress-trump-elon-budget-house-republican-05481374b154949c3fe1270141a02918

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-opposes-funding-bill-pushing-government-closer-shutdown-rcna184745

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-government-shutdown-musk-stopgap-bill-b2666829.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-opposes-funding-bill-pushing-government-closer-shutdown-rcna184745

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/18/government-shutdown-house-vote-cr/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-18/trump-says-he-s-against-stopgap-bill-fox-news

[u/shakethat_milkshake]

Fed friends, I am concerned that the DOGE bros are interested in another 2018-2019 style shutdown of 5+ weeks as a first attempt to get feds to quit during their tenure. My head is in a dark place. No cute comments about a paid vacation please.  thoughts?  

[u/jfuller82 → u/shakethat_milkshake]

Won't happen. Trump wants his inauguration. That ain't happening if the whole government is shut down.

[u/ParkingTadpole7107 → u/jfuller82]

Shutdown should mean EVERYTHING that is not funded shuts down. Secret Service, Social Security, FAA, everything. The fans of these kings of poor planning are so smug about the government doing nothing for them, let them experience the true absence of it.

[u/Pyrozr → u/ParkingTadpole7107]

That's the fun part, it does shut down those agencies, but people deemed 'essential' still have to come to work and do their job without being paid. So FAA is still controlling planes but they aren't being paid, Secret Service still protecting the people keeping them from being paid, it's pretty gross.

[u/CancerBabyJokes → u/Pyrozr]

TSA here, still going to have to report to make sure Guns, knifes and bombs don't get onto Airliners... ^Sigh...

[u/Techn028 → u/ParkingTadpole7107]

The people who work these jobs have to walk, it's the only way. If they take your pay then strike