House Democrats unveil bill to avoid government shutdown, but McConnell slams lack of farm aid

[Omaha Steve]

Source: CNBC

By Jacob Pramuk, Ylan Mui

House Democrats released a bill Monday to fund the government until Dec. 11, but Senate Republicans quickly criticized it, leaving the path to a deal to prevent a shutdown unclear.

The plan, which would stop funding from lapsing after the Sept. 30 deadline, did not include a White House request for farm aid or additional school lunch assistance, a Democratic priority. In a tweeted statement Monday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the proposal “shamefully leaves out key relief and support that American farmers need.”

Democrats hope to vote on the bill as soon as this week. In a statement Monday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the plan would “avert a catastrophic shutdown in the middle of the ongoing pandemic,” and called for lawmakers to resume talks toward coronavirus aid legislation.

The party and the Trump administration previously announced a tentative agreement to temporarily extend government funding without adding unrelated or potentially toxic provisions. The push to avoid a shutdown comes amid a protracted fight over how to structure a fifth pandemic relief package.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/21/government-shutdown-democrats-unveil-bill-to-fund-government.html

[bluestarone]

1. Gotta buy them farmer votes

[onenote]

16. Iowa is a competitive state. Why piss off farmers?

And why not support school lunch programs? What is the logic behind these omissions?

[EarthFirst]

2. Send 'em a new set of bootstraps...

With instructions: “Pull here...”

[mac56]

3. Farmers vote. School kids don't.

[yaesu]

4. tRump and the fascists would be blamed for a shutdown so let um play their games, I wouldn't

work on any bill with the fascists until a stimulus is passed.

[forgotmylogin]

12. Wouldn't it be hard to expedite a Supreme Court nomination if the government is shut down?

I'd almost suggest just shutting the government down til Jan 3rd, but I know that would hurt way too many people.

[Timewas]

5. Fuck em

Let it shut down then....

[SergeStorms]

6. The American farmers wouldn't need that aid....

if Trump hadn't fucked up trade negotiations with China. They're never going to get their customers back, so are farmers to be on government aid perpetually? Trump could fuck-up a one car funeral procession. If McConnell hadn't had his head so far up Trump's ass he'd realize that. We're talking republicans here though, and all they can see is power through their jaundiced eyes.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Slow walk this

every day is time off the clocks - Court nominees, days to election, days til January 21. Make every day count.

[SergeStorms]

13. Have you noticed...

that every day seems like a week now? The time to this election has been going excruciatingly slow. All of the republicans bullshit has made it even more so.

[Pacifist Patriot]

17. I'm experiencing the passage of time similarly to you.

[roamer65]

8. Leave it out.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. There was the "Farm Bill" passed and signed into law in 2018

which is a multi-year (usually 5) piece of legislation that already authorizes levels of funding. The stable GOP geniuses had let it lapse back in 2013 so it was significantly late when the renewal finally passed in 2014, and the latest renewal happened in 2018 (making it good until 2023).

[truthisfreedom]

10. People who vote have kids who need school lunch help.

[kairos12]

11. Send them a complimentary CD they can related to by the group

Haul in Oates.

[onenote]

14. why doesn't it include school lunch support?

[DallasNE]

15. Oh The Republicans

They deride the stimulus bill passed by the House in May for having pork so they want a clean bill. Next they deride the House bill to keep the government open until December 11th because it doesn't have the pork for the farmers the Republicans demand. I always thought that pork was pork.