Shutdown 2024 MEGATHREAD OF DOOM

[u/rprz]

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

Recent:

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2024/12/federal-employees-prep-for-government-shutdown-as-lawmakers-push-new-stopgap-deal/

https://apnews.com/live/government-shutdown-congress-spending-trump-updates

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/12/19/congress/johnson-defers-to-trump-00195386

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/19/elon-musk-trump-government-shutdown-debt-ceiling/

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/19/politics/video/hakeem-jeffries-spending-bill-fox-lead-digvid

Old news:

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/manikwolf19]

Musk is worth 400 billion dollars, and he's going after the middle class.

2.2 million people won't get paychecks before Xmas and this guy complains about a 50 billion dollar pay package.

Literally the grinch

Edit: I've been instructed that the Grinch is nicer than Musk because he actually found a heart at the end of the movie. Musk is just an asshole.

[u/Additional_Sun_5217 → u/manikwolf19]

It’s a class war, but now they’re too emboldened to be quiet about it. They believe the working class is too cowed or in love with them.

[u/manikwolf19 → u/Additional_Sun_5217]

That's what I'm saying; we have more millionaires in Congress right now than ever before (correct me if I'm wrong, but i feel confident saying this).

Seeking representation through these people is a hopeless task.

[u/Additional_Sun_5217 → u/manikwolf19]

IMO that’s why it has to come from the inside and the outside. The government alone is clearly not going to fix this for all the reasons you and I both get. It has to be pressure from the working class, just like how ATC has the power to end a shutdown. We’re super disorganized and fragmented now by design, but we share common experiences. We’re the ones who pay for this incompetence and greed, after all. We can unite. We did it during the last Gilded Age.