GOP-dysfunction could lead to a government-shutdown on April 28th.

[DetlefK]

https://www.axios.com/gop-scrambles-to-defuse-shutdown-bomb-2331714482.html

A top Republican with close ties to the White House tells me that after the GOP failure on healthcare, a government shutdown — looming when a continuing resolution runs out April 28 — is "more likely than not... Wall Street is not expecting a shutdown and the markets are unprepared."

And Chris Krueger of Cowen Washington Research Group today will warn financial clients: "Hello April 29 government shutdown."

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While the GOP may have the will, party strategists don't see the way: The bleak House GOP math remains, with no sign it'll change. And the GOP can't count on the twin hail Marys floated over the weekend: enlisting moderate Dems (as we reported yesterday), or the Congressional Black Caucus (as Jonathan Swan revealed in his Sunday-night newsletter, Sneak Peek).


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Trumpcare was nothing. This would be the ultimate humiliation. When the Republicans are in charge of everything and cannot even keep the government running.

[mdbl]

1. The Congress has been shut down for 7 years

Doesn't surprise me in the least.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. It seems nuts to me if Democrats do not vote to continue government running.

If they vote against a clean continuing resolution, they are voting to shut down government, which seems to me to be a "strangle government in a bathtub" ultra-conservative tactic.

The 64 billion dollar question is whether the resolution will be clean.

I suppose they could just abstain, but to actually vote against a clean resolution to shut it down seems to go against Democratic belief in the powerful goodness of what government does for the people.

[Girard442]

4. D's should commit to voting for a clean bill.

Absolutely refuse in advance to vote for any dirty one whatsoever.

[murielm99]

3. What is axios?

The article was short on details, at least for me. Maybe I have a limited understanding of what is involved here.

I think I saw this reported somewhere else, too.

Continuing resolution? Was this something left over from raising the debt ceiling during President Obama's tenure?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. It's a new news aggregator with a news-lite manifesto

All of us left cool, safe jobs to start a new company with this shared belief: Media is broken — and too often a scam.

Stories are too long. Or too boring.

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Continuing resolutions are needed whenever government deficit spending reaches the debt limit ceiling. All Administrations face them.