(CW: US politics) A first for CNN
"What longer term solutions are lawmakers considering to avoid a government shutdown?"
CNN: "¯\_(ツ)_/¯" (literal quote)
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/19/politics/trump-shrug-shutdown-analysis/index.html
(CW: US politics) A first for CNN
@mawr whoa wha
This sounds like a bfd? Yikes
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(CW: US politics) The Budget
@vahnj It might turn into one; we'll have to wait and see what comes of it.
The longest shutdown was 27 days long starting in mid December of 1995, also over a budget. Bill Clinton was in the white house with Republican controlled house and senate.
Now we have Republican majorities in all 3, but they need 12 Democrat votes to pass the budget, and neither party has anything to gain politically by cooperating with the other... so as put so eloquently by CNN, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯