Government Shutdown and the TSP

[Boghie]

Ok, so the Democrats will fight back against layoffs resulting from a Gubmint shutdown. What will be shutdown? Will it be to Senator Whitehouse's constituency's benefit to fight such layoffs in court for a year. Anyway, this Administration won't be playing the 'National Monument Game'. They've been planning this for years.

BTW, September will be a big surplus month and October will likely be a surplus month. Thus, they will be able to fund what they want and call it super important required stuff. They will elect not to fund the whatever stuff nobody cares about.

This time it will be different.

 

[tsptalk]

"President Trump is engaged in mafia-style blackmail, with his threats ultimately harming the American people,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland said in a statement, calling the potential layoffs “likely illegal” and pledging that Democrats will be “fighting back with every tool we have."

“President Trump will try to abuse a shutdown — just like he’s trampled our laws for months — but that doesn’t mean he gets whatever he wants as a result,” Murray said in a statement.

Well, that's pretty one sided, so I will add the counter point:

"... democrats seek “$1 Trillion Dollars in new spending to continue free healthcare for Illegal Aliens,” taxpayer money for funding transgender surgery for minors, open borders, and allowing men to compete in women’s sports."

Trump Says Democrats Seek ‘Free Healthcare for Illegal Aliens’ as Government Shutdown Odds Surge - TipRanks.com

President Donald Trump fired off a lengthy post on Truth Social criticizing Democratic lawmakers for “radical” demands tied to keeping the federal government open. ...

www.tipranks.com

I'm not looking to debate the issues, but let's just say there's a reason that we have a stalemate.

 

[coolhand]

Hmmmm....pass the popcorn.

 

[James48843]

Well, that's pretty one sided, so I will add the counter point:

"... democrats seek “$1 Trillion Dollars in new spending to continue free healthcare for Illegal Aliens,” taxpayer money for funding transgender surgery for minors, open borders, and allowing men to compete in women’s sports."

Trump Says Democrats Seek ‘Free Healthcare for Illegal Aliens’ as Government Shutdown Odds Surge - TipRanks.com

President Donald Trump fired off a lengthy post on Truth Social criticizing Democratic lawmakers for “radical” demands tied to keeping the federal government open. ...

www.tipranks.com

I'm not looking to debate the issues, but let's just say there's a reason that we have a stalemate.

Not trying to debate issues- just saying that the forces are different than they were in May when the last kick-the-can happened. And that tells me a shutdown is very likely. At least that’s what I’m seeing. Been around for a few of them, and this one is going to be nastier than most, I think.

We will know next week.

 

[James48843]

I just saw this: the House won’t even come back until NOON on the day of the deadline.

And there is no way the Senate will pass straight, without modification, what the House did.

It’s going to take new deals, and those cannot happen now until the Senate decides what to do , passes it, and then the House has to then approve it as well. And a far, the two sides are not even negotiating.

I’m gonna just give it a 99% chance if shutdown at midnight of the 30th.