So, if congress and the President can't come to an agreement on a budget, the government will shut down tomorrow. The Republican controlled congress have attached several riders to the budget bill, which defund some big things related to health care and other things. The democrats refuse to pass it with those riders attached. The President refuses to sign another "stop gap" bill that would give them more time.
Just before midnight they came to an agreement. The republicans removed the defunding stuff and the dems agreed to extremely deep cuts to federal programming. This political climate sucks. I'm quite sure that the fiscal conservative thing will only get stronger and that republicans will continue to pass measures that claim to be only fiscally conservative but are clearly social actions as well. I can only hope the democrats get their message together and do something to counteract this, but dems seems completely useless. SUCKY SUCKY.
Basically, a massive hissy fit by the Rehuglians because they want their own way, to whit, cutting everything for the poor and giving tax breaks to the rich. [kind of a reverse Robin Hood]..and if they can't then they're going to shut everything down, take their ball and go home.. which they're blaming on the Democrats because they're meany poo-poo-heads and won't let them have what they want.
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