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Post by minx on Nov 15, 2023 10:54:47 GMT -5
As if budget shit couldn't get any worse, now the house has passed something called a laddered CR.
So some programs get funded until January, while others are funded through February.
All I can say is that if this passes the Senate, the dems better waste no time putting out funding proposals way before January hits, and be prepared to address the American people to explain why the Republican cuts to social services like SNAP or defunding the IRS will hurt us all.
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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Nov 15, 2023 13:54:17 GMT -5
As Bernie Sander said to Macho Man Randy Savage yesterday, "God knows the American people have enough contempt for Congress, let’s not make it worse.”
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Post by k9krap on Nov 15, 2023 16:53:39 GMT -5
I thought SNAP was funded with the farm bill? Sieve read that the CR includes funding for the next year for the fam bill, including SNAP. I saw it in2 publications and was surprised to see that.
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Post by minx on Nov 16, 2023 14:23:17 GMT -5
Yup - SNAP goes through the farm bills.
They've been extended to the middle of January.
So they've made sure that no one will be too pissed over the Christmas holiday so they can screw them over in the New Year instead.
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Post by k9krap on Nov 16, 2023 16:56:23 GMT -5
I think I may have been confused. Unlike most other government funding bills that expire at the end of the fiscal year (yikes! Brings back memories of my time in Accounting at Dahlgren!), it is a bill that spans many years (in this case 5) and expires on December 31. So they didn’t have to include it in the CR, technically. And I misread the articles, thinking they had extended it for a year rather than into next year.
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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Nov 17, 2023 10:20:00 GMT -5
Didn't the freedom cockses remove the last speaker for having dems help pass the previous funding bill?
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Post by minx on Nov 17, 2023 10:28:47 GMT -5
Yeah, but this was THEIR bill, and the dems went along with it to keep the government open.
So the shit kicking has just been postponed so they can have a nice holiday.
And it's beating a dead horse, but just where are the dems and their proposals? They need to be broadcasting them every 5 minutes and bombarding us with flyers they way they do at election time. But crickets.
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