The White House Office of Management and Budget on Thursday began its initial communications to agencies on how to prepare for a possible government shutdown, a source familiar with the plans said, as lawmakers on Capitol Hill have yet to settle on a plan to avoid a shutdown by November 17.
The communications are part of the standard procedure laying out the steps toward bringing non-essential government functions to a halt.
“One week prior to the expiration of appropriations bills, regardless of whether the enactment of appropriations appears imminent, OMB will communicate with agency senior officials to remind agencies of their responsibilities to review and update orderly shutdown plans, and will share a draft communication template to notify employees of the status of appropriations,” a budget circular document from the Office of Management and Budget states.
There is no end, it will become exponentially worse as the years go by. This is politics now and forever.
I’m not talking just “politics is a disaster.” I’m talking about a House that is literally paralyzed and can’t pass or approve a single thing. That would certainly end in the next election, but is it even possible for a shutdown to go that long? I have to assume not but I don’t know how this gets resolved.
Its unprecedented, right? At least in the USA. We just don’t know what would happen, but its definitely not going to be good. The question is would the damage done be enough to send our country into death throws?