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.
This shutdown is going to fuck over a lot of people, myself included, right before the holidays.
Fuck the Republicans, fuck Johnson, and honestly fuck the Democrats for voting to get rid of McCarthy. Feels like the Dems closed up a monkey’s paw by ousting McCarthy, because Johnson is so much worse.
Why the fuck should Democrats have supported McCarthy when he did a deal with them at the last minute to kick the can down the road and then immediately turned around and badmouthed them? And they had no idea that Johnson would become speaker. Who did?
It’s disgraceful and needless, I’m with you there. But you can leave blaming “both sides” out of it and it’s still the same. One party does not want this, and one party does.