Repukes in Congress have don't trust the Criminal in Chief--go figure!--and also realize how badly they lost on this.

guess what, assholes: people like the government, and like when it works. When you pricks shut it down, it reminds the voters of those facts so it's a lose-lose proposition for you every time.

Maybe it's an unexpected bonus that the assholes are learning.

Running a country paycheck to paycheck is kinda STUPID!

I think they all know the GOP got seriously shellacked with their shutdown. Again.

as most times the stalemate was temporarily resolved with a Continuing Resolution until the final appropriations bills were completed. The whole issue of what happens with a lapse was mostly a post-Carter thing based on a budget-related law passed in 1974 and did not occur prior because interpretations of the Anti-Deficiency Act didn't quite consider civil servant salaries as applicable within the framework of the Constitution's mention of funding (a lot of the original Anti-Deficiency Act was focused on forbidding government obligations for agreements/contracts without having sufficient appropriations).

Nowadays, with the rise of the combative GOP starting with Gingrich and going through to the teabaggers, the lapses have become more egregious. They started being used as a bullying tool to inflict pain on helpless government workers who were not considered by the GOP to be of use due to the GOP's policy obsession for "less government", which they assumed would lead to Democratic capitulation to their hostage demands in order to enact their policies.

List of lapses/shutdowns - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/09/25/here-is-every-previous-government-shutdown-why-they-happened-and-how-they-ended/?utm_term=.ea4133c23b75

(note - although the above link is listed with a "2013" - it was written just before the 2013 one, they actually updated it with a link about this last shutdown)

Leslie Knope snaps her fingers at him to get him to focus.

There's not enough snaps or fingers to get attention from this preznut.

take it away from him OVERTLY (i.e. over-riding a veto) and deal with the ensuing temper tantrum, so they will hide it from him when he's not looking... That's some good parenting there, GrASSley. Way to teach the man-baby to behave responsibly.

That's the district I live in. Now it's represented by his nephew, Dan.

Dale Kildee retired a few years ago, and his nephew ran fir and won the seat.

While Dale was a long term Congressman, and effective, his nephew DAN KILDEE is now the Congressman, and is turning into a really outstanding and significant rising powerhouse guy. He speaks very eloquently, is very bright, and is an absolutely dynamic Congressman.

I think the reporter or editor of the article just got it wrong. Nancy said Kildee, and the reporter or editor injected the error.

My exact subject line with added emphasis: Dale Kildee, that she references, is the FORMER congressman representing MI-05

I've lived here for most of my life so I am VERY familiar with the Kildee Family and their political legacy. Dan's father and his uncle, Dale, grew up by, and were friends with my mother's family.

In a parliamentary system, denial of supply would trigger either a no-confidence vote or an election.

It's appalling that it can be used as a political tool.

Government shutdown should be one politicial trick that neither party can use. We know Senator Bennett would vote for it after that epic takedown of Ted Cruz. I hope to see that righteous rant played in many pro-Democrat campaigns for 2020!

Perfect. That would keep the funding at "current" levels until the final versions are approved. Of course with egregiously hypocritical GOPers, they would probably insist on "permanent" CRs - except for DOD, but that is a whole other issue. A couple times during my career, the funding from a CR ended up being extended for the remainder of that fiscal year as an example.

Oddly enough, one would think the GOP would embrace that aspect of it as a way to "control spending" (outside of their pet pork projects that they will cherry pick regardless). But at least this would put the lapse of funding/furlough nonsense (along with the cherry-picking of who or what is considered "essential&quot to rest for good.

In the case of a true national emergency Congress could pass a declaration immediately. For a made-up one like the border wall Congress could run the issue through the normal political process.