From AFT:
“This week in Congress:
Shutdown threat looms again”
(During the October 2013 partial
government shutdown, federal sites like the Lincoln Memorial were closed to the
public because of a lack of funding for normal operations.)
Once again, Congress is looking
at the possibility of triggering a partial government shutdown if lawmakers
can’t reach an agreement on a stopgap budget measure by the end of this week. Lawmakers
avoided a shutdown in October by passing a short-term budget extension through
Dec. 3. At the time, the hope was that time would give Democratic and
Republican negotiators time to work out a full-year spending plan for fiscal
2022. Instead, two months into the new fiscal year, that agreement still
appears far away. House and Senate leaders are considering whether to agree to
another budget bill until the end of the month, in hopes of finding a path
ahead, or push the issue into 2022, after the holiday season. If those talks
break down or stall in coming days, the result could be federal worker
furloughs and pauses in non-essential military activities as agencies are
forced to halt operations due to a lack of funding. Both chambers also hope to
make progress on the annual defense authorization bill this week. The Senate is
expected to finalize its draft of the massive military policy and spending
legislation early this week, with the goal of negotiations with House lawmakers
and final passage sometime next week.
^ Another threat of the Federal
Government shutting down this Friday (December 3rd) - meaning thousands of people would be forced
to stay home without pay and thousands more would be forced to work without pay
- until the Shutdown ends. Biden, the Republicans and the Democrats need to all
make sure this doesn't happen. ^
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