Government to Shut Down After Midnight Barring Last Minute Breakthrough

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The US government is set to shut down after midnight due to a lack of agreement on a new budget, with commenters expressing frustration and concern over the political stalemate.

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katcher

3 months ago

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Why does the post title omit the name of the country that's shutting down?

amenhotep

3 months ago

Is there any other country it could be referring to?

potato3732842

3 months ago

More clicks. SOP editor behavior in 2020-whatever. Gotta get those sweet sweet eyeball on ad bucks.

(The country is the US btw)

RandomBacon

3 months ago

NPR is in the U.S. and Hacker News has a policy of not editorializing titles.

estimator7292

3 months ago

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chipheat

3 months ago

To explicitly state for others, the country in question is the United States.

jdlshore

3 months ago

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Trump’s MO seems to be to intimidate and threaten, and his threat to fire workers rather than furloughing them is in line with that. So is his threat to affect WIC first.

Given this tendency, it seems like this shutdown could be worse and longer than past shutdowns. Combined with the AI bubble, tariffs, and poor job numbers, I wonder if this could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.

centiar

3 months ago

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I avoid readig news due to the obvious bias that has seemingly infected all publications. However, tried Kagi News today and here is the summary of the shutdown:

"Republicans are pressing a clean stopgap bill to fund agencies through November 21, while Democrats insist on extending health-care subsidies and reversing recent Medicaid cuts in any deal."

https://kite.kagi.com/ecc8e0de-f9d3-421c-99cb-9b165e14e9c6/w...

mint5

3 months ago

Well that summary is curiously ignoring the glaring elephant in the room - selective context is useful for propaganda I suppose - a clean resolution is an utterly meaningless concept in the context of an administration that is already arbitrarily revoking funding to anything they dislike.

AnimalMuppet

3 months ago

What good is a clean spending bill if the president is going to use recission? So, under current circumstances, why should it matter to the Democrats that it's a clean bill?

asacrowflies

3 months ago

Jesus

sgnelson

3 months ago

Well thank god it took a complex event like the modern politics around budgeting for the entire US government and broke it down into a 1 paragraph synopsis for you.

How would you ever know what was going on if it didn't? /s

cosmicgadget

3 months ago

What obvious bias?

jgoewert

3 months ago

Dang. I guess kagi is about as useful as a cuecat with a synopsis like that.

cosmicgadget

3 months ago

> "We can do things during the shutdown that are irreversible, that are bad for them," Trump said. "We can cut large numbers of people. We don't want to do that, but we don't want fraud, waste and abuse."

"Nice civil service you got here. Be a shame if something happened to it."

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