Reply With Quote
interesting timing
Trump is gonna get booed
not paying or feeding soldiers is an interesting choice
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/comm...lose-shutdown/Some military leaders are telling their troops to prepare for their on-base commissaries to close by early December if the government shutdown continues. As many as 168 locations at bases across the continental U.S. could be affected.
But officials with the agency that runs the military-only grocery stores insisted to Task & Purpose this week that the stores will be open through Thanksgiving.
“Our stores will be open to serve our customers through Thanksgiving,” Kevin Robinson, a spokesperson for the Defense Commissary Agency, or DECA, told Task & Purpose.
While DECA officials have been planning for the closures since at least last month, military leaders began telling troops this week to plan for December closings. Task & Purpose obtained two emails sent this week by leaders of two large military units that advised troops that DECA is likely to begin cutting back on restocking inventory at the military-only base grocery stores on Nov. 14, with plans to close nearly all stores in the U.S. by Dec. 3. Both emails cited updates the leaders received earlier this week from DECA.
interesting timing
Trump is gonna get booed
historical background
in principle the current guidance could be fixed with another OLC opinion
https://data4democracy.substack.com/...ment-shutdownsGovernment shutdowns aren’t required by the Cons ution or any Supreme Court ruling. They arose from a Justice Department memo that reinterpreted the Antideficiency Act—a 19th-century law that limits obligations without appropriations—nearly a century after the legislation was enacted.
Before 1980, shutdowns didn’t happen. When funding gaps occurred, federal agencies kept operating. The understanding was straightforward: Congress would eventually pass the funding, everyone would get paid, and life would go on. Budget negotiations did not routinely devolve into national crises.
Then came the memo. In 1980, the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel issued a new interpretation of the Antideficiency Act. Beginning with Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti, the OLC concluded that this old statute required most government operations to cease the moment appropriations lapsed. OLC lawyers offered their opinion on how things should work and everyone just sort of went along with it.
Do you really like America being like this?
20 work days in 19 weeks
the do-nothing 119th Congress continues to fail
lol
USDA clawing back November SNAP benefits after promising they would be paid on Friday -- the full-court press on relief to needy Americans just before Thanksgiving is back on
But in many states, the money has already gone out
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...od-stamps.htmlThe Trump administration told states that they must “immediately undo” any actions to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families, in a move that added to the chaos and uncertainty surrounding the nation’s largest anti-hunger program during the government shutdown.
The Agriculture Department issued the command in a late-night Saturday memo, viewed later by The New York Times. That guidance threatened to impose financial penalties on states that did not “comply” quickly with the government’s new orders.
being a Republican apparently means never admitting you lost the battle and doubling down on the L -- every time
"we cut waste and got rid of the woke"
Whatever concessions the Democrats get out of this government won't be worth the damage already done.
agree 100%
there's no doubt Republicans will continue to f*ck things up massively
"we will continue to shoot American hostages until our demands are met"
hunger games Republican governance
Schumer to the rescue for Republicans, if this actually happens
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/09/dea...tdown-in-reachSenate Democrats on Sunday indicated they are ready to advance a package of bills that could end the government shutdown, multiple sources told Axios.
Why it matters: It is the most significant movement toward a bipartisan breakthrough in the talks to re-open the government in over a month.
- At least 10 Senate Democrats are expected to support a procedural motion to advance a package of spending bills and a short term funding measure, multiple sources from both parties told Axios.
Axios got this wrong two days ago, so
Trumpy media trying hard to manifest the W
"finger in the wind"
looks like Dems may cave, but a 2 month CR puts us roughly back in the same place on Jan 31
(morally right, politically dumb)
pretty much all the outlets reporting now
(it will be hilarious if the Senate gets to 60 and the House Freedom Caucus sinks the deal because they hate the RIF backtrack)
Let this end today and bitcoin to finally hit 180K+ as it should have by now
today's just a procedural vote
from what I've heard, it'll take about 8 days to reopen, assuming no setbacks
There are currently 2 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 2 guests)
Posting Permissions
