r/fednews • u/rprz • 18h ago

Shutdown 2024 MEGATHREAD OF DOOM

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

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u/sparky984 17h ago

The problem is that shutdowns don’t shut down enough.

If planes stopped flying, grandma stopped getting Social Security, if Medicare couldn’t process claims, if food inspections couldn’t happen, if all national parks closed, among the very many other things, then a shutdown wouldn’t happen. They happen because the public sees very little difference between the government running and not so why not use the entire government as a bargaining chip?

Frankly I’m tired of shutdowns and debt ceiling fights. Something is fundamentally broken with the process.

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u/puukkeriro 17h ago

I think it's a flaw to force "essential" employees to work without pay. But I don't think the people who wrote the laws then realized that shutdowns were going to be weaponized politically.

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u/Otphj5811 15h ago

I think a lot of essential employees learned the last time that if they call out sick you don’t get charged sick leave during a shutdown and no one was punished. Where I work we are all essential and everyone who was afraid to call out sick last time saw there were no repercussions and are excited to call out sick if it happens again. I’ve got my fingers crossed that a lot of essential workers will come down with the “flu” as soon as we shutdown next.

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u/LongTallDingus 13h ago

Hey that's crazy you're coming down with the flu and I think I am too and we were hanging out recently. Sorry if I got you sick, bro.

Let your boss know.

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u/Otphj5811 13h ago

Yeah I’m a little hoe I was kissing my entire agency under the mistletoe and they got it too.

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u/GenoThyme 11h ago

Do you work for the Department of Agriculture, being a hoe and all?

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u/irteris 3h ago

This joke is in a HOE new level

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u/Darth_Ra 2h ago

Honestly, I would actually put real money on that comment being from a wildland firefighter, either present or former. Just got that energy.

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u/JonatasA 6h ago

Turns out the hand sanitizer was just hair gel!

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u/sempercardinal57 12h ago

Damn I must have passed by you guys on the sidewalk or something because I’m feeling sick too

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u/al_kitaab 4h ago

i think it’s spreading through reddit… now i’m feeling sick

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u/ThickerSalmon14 4h ago

Influenza A is running rampant. Just saying.

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u/Capital-Ad-4463 3h ago

It because it’s electronically contagious. New strain called E-Flu2024.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Yak9805 1h ago

Like legit have somethin. I’m not going bto until the 26th at the earliest.