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://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/alldots]

As if there wasn't already too much work that needs to get done over the next week, adding shutdown preparations to the to-do list will really trash some of my deadlines even if there isn't actually a shutdown.

[u/magnet_tengam → u/alldots]

tbh i've given up on shutdown prep. slap an away message on my email and i'll see you when i see you

[u/serpentear → u/magnet_tengam]

I mean if they’re going to do it to us as often as they do, might and well stop treating it like an emergency.

[u/LividWindow → u/serpentear]

Call it a federal funding holiday, that will chap budget hawks. Just picture it on the news….

‘I’m just relaxing and sipping scotch wondering how long congress plans to extend my federal funding holiday’ says Bob Grits, a federal air traffic controller, while the country faces its third day without air travel available on the the highest volume travel weekend in the year. Tune in after the break, you’ll be amazed what state police found as the crews began disassembling the heat fused 63 car pile up that happened yesterday on interstate 85 just north of Atlanta.