#publicdisservice — Public Fediverse posts
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“It’s kind of like if you were a firefighter trying to put out a house fire, & somebody is standing on the hose trying to have a philosophical debate with you about whether water is good or not,” he said.
#RFKJr #Trump #idiocracy #PublicDisservice #PublicHealth #InfectiousDisease #AntiVaxxers #disinformation #ConspiracyTheories #science #medicine #disease
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The #virus has jumped between under-vaccinated groups of people across the state. Dr. Leisha Nolen, the #Utah state epidemiologist, said that #measles cases had emerged in 22 of the state’s 29 counties. Most of the counties that have been spared have very small populations, she added.
#RFKJr #Trump #idiocracy #PublicDisservice #PublicHealth #InfectiousDisease #AntiVaxxers #disinformation #ConspiracyTheories #science #medicine #disease
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#Utah Becomes the New Center of #US #Measles Cases
Nearly 600 people have been sickened across the state, which has seen an increase in recent #vaccine exemptions among #children.
#RFKJr #Trump #idiocracy #PublicDisservice #PublicHealth #InfectiousDisease #AntiVaxxers #ConspiracyTheories #science #medicine #research #disease #ethics #HHS #NIH #CDC #FDA #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/well/measles-cases-utah.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
“We are not even going to pretend that we are trying to figure it out,” said Senator Lisa Murkowski, #Republican of Alaska, one of those bound for Germany. “It doesn’t look great.”
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The Capitol emptied out Thursday, a full day before the midnight Friday deadline for funding #DHS. Lawmakers who were deadlocked over new restrictions on #immigration officers jetted off to Munich for a security conference or headed home for a weeklong recess, seemingly unconcerned with the looming closure. It was a jarring change from the past, when lawmakers were reluctant to seem like they were giving up for even a moment before time ran out for a deal.
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A #Trump hotel in #Oman. A tower in #India. A #GolfCourse near Riyadh, #SaudiArabia. These are just a few of the >20 overseas projects the #TrumpOrganization is pursuing, often requiring cooperation with foreign governments [um, #FARA folks???]. These deals have made a minimum of millions for the #Trumps…. And the admin has treated those exact same governments favorably.
#POTUS4sale #SelfService #PublicDisservice #law #US #USpol #Constitution #emoluments #plutocracy #kleptocracy #MafiaState
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A #Trump hotel in #Oman. A tower in #India. A #GolfCourse near Riyadh, #SaudiArabia. These are just a few of the >20 overseas projects the #TrumpOrganization is pursuing, often requiring cooperation with foreign governments [um, #FARA folks???]. These deals have made a minimum of millions for the #Trumps…. And the admin has treated those exact same governments favorably.
#POTUS4sale #SelfService #PublicDisservice #law #US #USpol #Constitution #emoluments #plutocracy #kleptocracy #MafiaState
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NYT knows this number is an underestimate because some of his #profits remain #hidden from public view. And they continue to grow.
In fact, “The Trumps” have made at least $23 million trom licensing the #Trump name just in overseas marketing since his re-election.
#SelfService #PublicDisservice #law #US #USpol #Constitution #emoluments #plutocracy #kleptocracy #MafiaState
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A review by the NYT editorial board relying on analyses from #news organizations [with strict #JournalisticStandards requiring a minimum of 2 #reliable #sources to report on any single matter]…shows that #Trump has [ab]used the office of the presidency to make at least $1.4 billion.
#SelfService #PublicDisservice #law #US #USpol #Constitution #emoluments #plutocracy #kleptocracy #MafiaState
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There are bad anniversaries.
Trauma, deaths, physical illness…
This anniversary is a muther f⁕⚠︎ing all-of-the-above amalgam.
#Trump Has Pocketed $1,408,500,000 in >1 year in power
A year ago, Trump took an #oath to serve the people of the #US.
Instead, he focused on enriching himself.
[I am all out of gift articles, they’ve all gone to you]
#SelfService #PublicDisservice #law #US #USpol #Constitution #emoluments #plutocracy #kleptocracy #MafiaState
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/20/opinion/editorials/trump-wealth-crypto-graft.html -
Even by the standards of an institution that has set records for #dysfunction in recent years, the #Republican-led #Congress in 2025 hit new lows for #productivity.
Plagued by a razor-thin majority, intraparty divisions & a fear of doing anything that might draw #Trump’s ire, Speaker #MikeJohnson toiled to keep the #House running.
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How the #House Slumped to Historic Lows of #Productivity in 2025
Despite holding a governing trifecta, #Republicans labored to steer the tightly divided House, with fewer votes & fewer bills that became #law than almost any session in the last two decades.
#Congress #law #GOP #dysfunction #PublicDisservice #Trump #MikeJohnson
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/17/us/politics/house-republicans-majority-productivity.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
Projection
#Trump says he 'won't be extorted' by #Democrats seeking #healthcare for the people
The government #shutdown is poised to become the longest ever this week as #Republicans continue to refuse to negotiate with #Democrats. Millions of people could lose #FoodAid benefits, #health #care subsidies are set to expire & there are few real talks between the parties over how to end it.
#PublicDisservice
https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-longest-trump-democrats-senate-filibuster-1f147746aab58daffd8a8cb578df0b81?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-03-No+end+to+the+shutdown -
#GOP senator blocks #Democrats bill to #pay all federal employees during #shutdown
Sen #RonJohnson (R-WI) objected to a request by Sen #ChrisVanHollen (D-MD) on Thursday for the #Senate to immediately consider & pass a bill to pay all #FederalWorkers, members of the #military & federal #contractors during the 2025 government shutdown.
#law #PublicDisservice #Republicans #Trump #OrchestratedShutdown
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5569758-ron-johnson-chris-van-hollen-shutdown-pay-bill/ -
Because he just doesn’t care, #Trump cancels White House meeting with #ChuckSchumer & #HakeemJeffries despite risk of a #government #shutdown
Trump has abruptly canceled this week’s planned meeting with congressional Democratic leaders, refusing to negotiate over their demands to shore up #healthcare #funding as part of a deal to prevent a potential looming #FederalGovernment shutdown.
#PublicDisservice
https://apnews.com/article/trump-government-shutdown-schumer-jeffries-meeting-8b1726435066403bf6b9fe4e4fffc029 -
“The fact that 180 people signed onto the letter, with a supermajority of them still working in the building, & dozens of those people wanted to attach their real names signifies the severity of the problem,” Jeremy Edwards, a former press secretary for #FEMA who signed the letter, said in an interview. “They are that scared of us being so inadequately unprepared. It speaks a lot to the situation right now.”
#Trump #Disasters #Climate #ExtremeWeather #PublicDisservice #USGovernment #law #labor
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At least 2 #FEMA staff members who had been part of the federal response to July’s #Texas #flooding #disaster have now been placed on leave, acc/to an agency employee & another person familiar wi/ the situation.
One employee who manages cases for all #disasters, including TX helped orchestrate the letter.… She has now been placed on leave & pulled off her disaster casework.#Trump #Climate #ExtremeWeather #PublicDisservice #FederalGovernment #law #labor #kakistocracy #idiocracy
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By Tuesday evening, the #FEMA office of the administrator had sent several people letters informing them that effectively immediately, they were on an administrative leave, operating “in a non-duty status while continuing to receive pay & benefits.”
Last month, the #Trump admin also put nearly 140 #EPA employees on leave after they sent their own letter of #dissent.
#NaturalDisasters #Climate #ExtremeWeather #PublicDisservice #FederalGovernment #law #labor #kakistocracy #idiocracy
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The #Trump admin placed #FEMA employees on leave Tuesday after they signed an open letter of #dissent about the agency’s leadership….
About 180 current & former FEMA staffers sent a letter on Monday to members of #Congress & other officials, arguing the current leaders’ inexperience & approach harms FEMA’s mission & could result in a #disaster on the level of #HurricaneKatrina.#NaturalDisasters #Climate #ExtremeWeather #PublicDisservice #FederalGovernment #law #labor #kakistocracy #idiocracy
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#Trump puts #FEMA employees put on leave after criticizing the administration in open letter
About 180 current & former FEMA staffers sent a letter on Monday to members of #Congress & other officials protesting the agency’s leadership & direction.#EmergencyManagement #Climate #ExtremeWeather #PublicDisservice #FederalGovernment #law #labor #kakistocracy #idiocracy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/08/26/fema-employees-leave-trump-administration-letter/ -
Taxpayers are being asked to pay $2BILLION to *beautify* DC, yet the #FederalGovernment is unable to serve the public in a real [not Trump imagined] crisis.
#FEMA staff warn #Trump officials’ actions risk a Katrina-level #disaster
About 180 FEMA employees signed a letter to #Congress arguing that current agency leadership has hindered the ability to effectively manage #emergencies.#climate #ExtremeWeather #ClimateCrisis #PublicDisservice
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/climate/fema-employees-letter-trump-katrina.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare -
Sen #LisaMurkowski (R-AK) joined #Democrats on the #hospitals vote & a separate Democratic motion to prevent the #legislation from shifting some #FoodStamps costs to states.
On a party line vote, #Republicans also dismissed a motion by Democrats to strike any provision that would cut #Medicaid.
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In the runup to a final #Senate vote on #Trump’s big bill of tax cuts & spending cuts, #Republicans have voted down #Democratic amendments to strike portions of the bill that would reduce funding for rural #hospitals, #FoodStamps & #Medicaid.
Sen #SusanCollins (R-ME)joined #Democrats on an amendment to strike language that would force rural hospitals to limit their services.
#law #policy #PublicDisservice
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-6-30-2025#00000197-c1a1-d0e0-abbf-ffbf19690000 -
The #Republican bill’s largest category of spending cuts is in #healthcare, where reductions to #Medicaid & the #AffordableCareAct [#ACA / #Obamacare] total roughly $1 trillion & will result in 10.3 million more Americans losing #HealthInsurance, according to new estimates from the #CBO.
Last-minute changes to the bill, introduced just before it passed the #House, increased the size of cuts to those programs.
#Trump #PublicDisservice #law #economy #government #SocialServices #health
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To defend their #legislation, some #Republicans & White House aides have taken to attacking the #CBO as politically motivated & unreliable [typical #Trump, shoot the messenger]. But several nonpartisan independent groups that have analyzed the bill have also concluded that it would add significantly to the federal #debt.
#NationalDebt #PublicDisservice #USpol #law #economy #government #SocialServices #education #Medicaid #healthcare #FoodAssistance
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In the #House version of the bill, #Republicans also turned to some well-worn gimmicks in a bid to lower the sticker price of the #legislation. Several of the bill’s tax cut provisions, including #Trump’s campaign pledges to not tax #tips & #overtime pay, would last for only a few years. Those cuts could become far more costly if they were continued.
#NationalDebt #CBO #PublicDisservice #USpol #law #economy #government #SocialServices #education #Medicaid #healthcare #FoodAssistance
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#RFKJr.’s Bogus #MAHA Report Is Just #AI Slop
One AI researcher warned the report “cannot even be used for any serious discussion.”
#ArtificialIntelligence researchers claim there’s “definitive” proof that *#Health* Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. & his team used AI to write his “Make America Healthy Again” report.
#PublicHealth #law #science #medicine #idiocracy #kakistocracy #lazy #Trump #PublicDisservice
https://newrepublic.com/post/195910/robert-f-kennedy-jr-maha-report-fake-studies-ai -
The bill now heads to the #Republican-controlled #Senate, where it will likely be changed further in weeks of debate.
The 1,000-page #legislation would extend #TaxCuts for #corporations & #wealthy individuals that passed in 2017 during #Trump's first term, cancel many #GreenEnergy incentives passed by Democratic President Joe #Biden & further restrict eligibility for #health & #food programs for the #poor.
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From early Thursday to early Saturday, there have been over 1,500 #SevereWeather reports across 24 states. 9 states have been hit by at least one #tornado. The highest number of tornado & #wind damage reports have been in #Illinois, while the highest number of #hail reports have been in #Wisconsin.
#ExtremeWeather #ClimateChange #FEMA #NOAA #NWS #EarlyWarningSystems #DisasterRelief #Trump #DOGE #PublicDisservice
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The severe weather risk stretches more than 1,200 miles in total, with intense #storms predicted to reach as far as East #Texas to the Mid-#Atlantic through the weekend. After this #storm system winds down, another is expected to pick up to the west, with strong #tornadoes in the forecast by Sunday for parts of the #GreatPlains.
#ExtremeWeather #ClimateChange #FEMA #NOAA #NWS #EarlyWarningSystems #DisasterRelief #Trump #DOGE #PublicDisservice -
In #Wisconsin, a visibly striking #tornado spun through fields in New Richmond, while another caused significant damage in Hammond. In the capital of Madison, a hailstorm dropped #hail up to 2” in diameter.
The #NWS has issued #tornado & severe #storm warnings throughout the region, & cautioned that much of #Kentucky & parts of #Tennessee are also under a moderate risk for #flooding.#ExtremeWeather #ClimateChange #FEMA #NOAA #EarlyWarningSystems #DisasterRelief #Trump #PublicDisservice
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Friday’s destruction marked the 3rd-straight day of significant severe weather, w/more threats predicted through the weekend. Severe #thunderstorms across the #GreatLakes region late Thurs knocked out #power to some 315k customers as of early Saturday, w/ #Michigan suffering a large concentration of power loss, acc/to PowerOutage.us.
#ExtremeWeather #ClimateChange #FEMA #NOAA #NWS #EarlyWarningSystems #DisasterRelief #Trump #DOGE #PublicDisservice -
As #Trump dismantles #FEMA & guts #NOAA…
At least 16 dead in #Missouri, #Kentucky as severe #storms sweep central #US
At least 7 people have died in Missouri & 9 in Kentucky, authorities say, as severe weather including tornadoes, hail & storms sweeps through the #Midwest.#ExtremeWeather #ClimateChange #EarlyWarningSystems #DisasterRelief #USpol #DOGE #law #PublicDisservice
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/05/17/missouri-kentucky-tornado-weather-deaths/ -
#RFKJr Turns to a Discredited #AntiVaxxer for #Autism Study
#DavidGeier has been hired as a senior data analyst at #HHS. According to several people, he will examine any potential links between #vaccines & autism that were debunked long ago.
#science #medicine #research #USpol #Trump #ConspiracyTheories #PublicDisservice
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/health/rfk-jr-autism-vaccines.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=29D75BEB-44F7-48D9-A9FF-0E7FD021B9F2 -
Since #ElonMusk’s so-called #DOGE took over important govt #technology teams within the #GSA & what was formally known as the #USDS, around 200 technologists have either resigned or been fired, jeopardizing around a decade’s worth of work dedicated to everything from #PublicHealth to #passport applications.
#18F #law #regulation #Musk #Trump #PublicDisservice #Technocracy #broligarchy #plutocracy #NeoReactionary #NRx #Technofeudalism #USpol
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#DOGE Is Putting Major Government #Efficiency Projects at #Risk
“18F was the people’s #tech shop,” one fired #18F worker tells WIRED. “There’s a giant hole left by the closure of 18F. Requests from across the country for help far outpaced 18F’s capacity before the closure.”
#USpol #Musk #Trump #PublicDisservice #law #regulation #Technocracy #broligarchy #plutocracy #NeoReactionary #NRx #Technofeudalism #USpol
https://archive.is/2025.03.07-192338/https://www.wired.com/story/doge-major-government-tech-projects-efficiency/ -
In addition to those #water #conservation programs, the #InflationReductionAct set aside hundreds of millions of dollars for projects aimed at keeping #ColoradoRiver tributaries #clean & #healthy. Conservation groups, small nonprofits, Native American tribes, & local governments were assigned federal money for a bevy of projects that included #Wildfire prevention & #HabitatRestoration.
#Trump #Idiocracy #PublicDisservice #USpol #Hydroelectricity #DrinkingWater #Agriculture #economy #Climate
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That is no small feat, as leaders of the states that use #ColoradoRiver #water are caught in a #legal standoff about how to share it going forward.…
"Having this appropriated funding suddenly taken away undoes years & years of very careful collaboration among the #states in the #ColoradoRiverBasin," Castle said, "& threatens the #sustainability of the entire system."
#Trump #Idiocracy #PublicDisservice #USpol #Hydroelectricity #DrinkingWater #Agriculture #economy #Climate
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That is no small feat, as leaders of the states that use #ColoradoRiver #water are caught in a #legal standoff about how to share it going forward.…
"Having this appropriated funding suddenly taken away undoes years & years of very careful collaboration among the #states in the #ColoradoRiverBasin," Castle said, "& threatens the #sustainability of the entire system."
#Trump #Idiocracy #PublicDisservice #USpol #Hydroelectricity #DrinkingWater #Agriculture #economy #Climate
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That is no small feat, as leaders of the states that use #ColoradoRiver #water are caught in a #legal standoff about how to share it going forward.…
"Having this appropriated funding suddenly taken away undoes years & years of very careful collaboration among the #states in the #ColoradoRiverBasin," Castle said, "& threatens the #sustainability of the entire system."
#Trump #Idiocracy #PublicDisservice #USpol #Hydroelectricity #DrinkingWater #Agriculture #economy #Climate
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That is no small feat, as leaders of the states that use #ColoradoRiver #water are caught in a #legal standoff about how to share it going forward.…
"Having this appropriated funding suddenly taken away undoes years & years of very careful collaboration among the #states in the #ColoradoRiverBasin," Castle said, "& threatens the #sustainability of the entire system."
#Trump #Idiocracy #PublicDisservice #USpol #Hydroelectricity #DrinkingWater #Agriculture #economy #Climate
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That is no small feat, as leaders of the states that use #ColoradoRiver #water are caught in a #legal standoff about how to share it going forward.…
"Having this appropriated funding suddenly taken away undoes years & years of very careful collaboration among the #states in the #ColoradoRiverBasin," Castle said, "& threatens the #sustainability of the entire system."
#Trump #Idiocracy #PublicDisservice #USpol #Hydroelectricity #DrinkingWater #Agriculture #economy #Climate
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The 2022 #InflationReductionAct allowed President #Biden to designate $4B for #ColoradoRiver programs, including big sums for programs that pay #farmers, #cities & #NativeAmerican [#IndigenousPeople] tribes to #conserve Colorado River #water &, instead, leave it in those #reservoirs. The payments are compensation for money they can't make by using water to grow crops or for other uses.
#Trump #Idiocracy #PublicDisservice #USpol #Hydroelectricity #DrinkingWater #Agriculture #economy #Climate
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The #ColoradoRiver is shrinking due to #ClimateChange, which means the nation's 2 largest #reservoirs, #LakeMead & #LakePowell, created by #dams, have reached record low levels in recent years amid a #megadrought spanning >2 decades. If #water levels fall much lower, they could lose the ability to generate #hydropower within the massive dams that hold them back, or even lose the ability to pass water downstream.
#Trump #Idiocracy #PublicDisservice #USpol #DrinkingWater #Agriculture #economy
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Deficit-minded #Republicans rejected the stopgap spending bill out of hand, since many of them will back only regular full-year appropriations measures.
And #HouseRepublicans’ personal rivalries surfaced again in a callback to the #funding debacle that a year ago ousted #MikeJohnson’s predecessor, #KevinMcCarthy, from the speakership.#law #idiocracy #ChaosCaucus #PublicDisservice #House #GOP #GovernmentShutdown #government #shutdown
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Deficit-minded #Republicans rejected the stopgap spending bill out of hand, since many of them will back only regular full-year appropriations measures.
And #HouseRepublicans’ personal rivalries surfaced again in a callback to the #funding debacle that a year ago ousted #MikeJohnson’s predecessor, #KevinMcCarthy, from the speakership.#law #idiocracy #ChaosCaucus #PublicDisservice #House #GOP #GovernmentShutdown #government #shutdown
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Deficit-minded #Republicans rejected the stopgap spending bill out of hand, since many of them will back only regular full-year appropriations measures.
And #HouseRepublicans’ personal rivalries surfaced again in a callback to the #funding debacle that a year ago ousted #MikeJohnson’s predecessor, #KevinMcCarthy, from the speakership.#law #idiocracy #ChaosCaucus #PublicDisservice #House #GOP #GovernmentShutdown #government #shutdown
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Deficit-minded #Republicans rejected the stopgap spending bill out of hand, since many of them will back only regular full-year appropriations measures.
And #HouseRepublicans’ personal rivalries surfaced again in a callback to the #funding debacle that a year ago ousted #MikeJohnson’s predecessor, #KevinMcCarthy, from the speakership.#law #idiocracy #ChaosCaucus #PublicDisservice #House #GOP #GovernmentShutdown #government #shutdown
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Deficit-minded #Republicans rejected the stopgap spending bill out of hand, since many of them will back only regular full-year appropriations measures.
And #HouseRepublicans’ personal rivalries surfaced again in a callback to the #funding debacle that a year ago ousted #MikeJohnson’s predecessor, #KevinMcCarthy, from the speakership.#law #idiocracy #ChaosCaucus #PublicDisservice #House #GOP #GovernmentShutdown #government #shutdown
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#Democrats are expected to propose a 3-month extension of current #funding, known as a continuing resolution or #CR, which #pragmatic #Republicans unwilling to #shutdown the #government support.
#Defense hawks had voiced worries that a 6-month spending bill would hamstring #NationalSecurity spending, preferring a shorter extension that would give #Congress more time to agree on new spending levels for the rest of the fiscal year.
#law #idiocracy #ChaosCaucus #PublicDisservice #HouseRepublicans