what day would the shut down start

[gopiscrap]

if little hands donny decides not to negotiate?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Jan. 2, I think.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. But don't they have to do something sooner? Or is it because of home for holidays that makes

It more urgent

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. The government is funded through Dec. 31, so there couldn't be a shutdown

before then. I'm not sure what else will be done before January, but I don't think everything will grind to a halt automatically.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. December 22

By GRACE SEGERS CBS NEWS December 7, 2018, 11:47 AM
Congress passes bill to keep government running through Dec. 21

President Trump has signed a continuing resolution to keep the government running through Dec. 21, when funding for the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies will expire. The resolution was approved by voice vote in both the House and Senate Thursday.

A partial government shutdown was set to occur if Congress could not agree on outstanding funding bills by Dec. 7, but Mr. Trump and members of Congress agreed to extend the deadline after the death of former President George H.W. Bush. Mr. Bush lay in state at the Capitol on Monday and Tuesday, and his memorial service at the National Cathedral in Washington took place Wednesday.

Congressional Democrats and Mr. Trump are currently stalemated over funding for a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico. Mr. Trump has said that he is willing to let the government partially shut down if he does not receive $5 billion for the wall. Meanwhile, House Democrats, who take the majority in January, refuse to consider full funding.
....

Rebecca Kaplan and Bo Erickson contributed reporting

© 2018 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. I stand corrected. I had heard on the news that there was funding through 12/31

but apparently that's not true.

Merry Christmas...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. Fake News!

Gummint employees will have to come in on December 24 to go through a shutdown procedure. Well, maybe. If they've already put in for annual leave, most likely to burn up their use it or lose it time, they surely will not be required to come in. Someone in a higher paygrade than mine knows what to do.

Merry Christmas to you too.

[haele]

7. It won't until the new Congress begins. For now, he'll cave.

He wants the shutdown to be the Democrat's fault. Not his or his GOP cult followers.
Even if he has to backtrack on what he said today in a futile attempt to smear them.

Haele