Congress on the brink of another shutdown
If nothing changes in Congress by this Thursday, the government will once again be shut down. The argument is centralized on a spending bill and "unrelated issues." One issue holding up Congress is the recent immigration executive order. As of now, it is looking like a short-term spending bill will have to be passed by both the House and Senate soon so that the government will not shut down; this will give the Senate "more time to approve the measure"over which they are arguing. Sometime today, the House's Committee on Appropriations is supposed to release legislation that "funds virtually all of the government for a full fiscal year."
Our government and economic lessons from this week relate extremely well to this current event, and they both have made this problem easier for me to understand. However, I do not think that stubbornness should shut the whole government down. I agree with some Republican leaders quoted in this article who argue that the immigration fight should not be responsible for this shutdown, and should be saved for when the Republicans control the majority of both House and Senate.
I'm actually not that surprised that Congress is on the brink of another shutdown. I, for one, can't really find much wrong with the immigration executive order, so I don't think that it should be cause for so much stubborness in Congress. Hopefully Congress will be able to settle their differences on some of the legislation that is being talked about before a shutdown actually happens.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Hanna in that it doesn't surprise me in the slightest that Congress is having trouble and willing to shut down the government yet again. If they can get past the issue of the president passing an executive order, they should be able to get through the more important issues in Congress and hopefully not shut down the government.
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