Congress again races to avoid shutdown as key vote at risk of failing

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNN Politics

CNN — The Senate is slated to take a key vote Tuesday to take up government funding that is at risk of failing over a deal cut by West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin that has come under sharp criticism from Republicans and liberals – pushback that could be enough to sink the vote and push Congress to the brink of a shutdown.

Lawmakers are still expected to pass a short-term funding extension by week’s end, averting a shutdown, but they will likely run right up against the deadline of Friday at midnight when funding expires. The timing of the fight continues a pattern by Capitol Hill leaders in recent years of negotiating until the last minute to fund the federal government, leaving virtually no room for error in a series of events where any one senator could slow the process down beyond the deadline.

Neither party wants to be blamed for a shutdown – especially so close to the high-stakes November midterm elections where control of Congress is at stake and as Democrats and Republicans are both trying to make their case to voters that they should be in the majority. Many lawmakers are also eager to finish up work on Capitol Hill so they can return to their home states to campaign.

The Senate is on track for a vote Tuesday evening on whether to start debate on a measure to extend funding, but an effort to attach a permitting reform proposal from Manchin has put the vote in jeopardy. Senators released the legislative text of the stop-gap funding bill overnight – a measure that would fund the government through December 16.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/27/politics/senate-government-funding-vote/index.html

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End of fiscal year 2022 is this Friday and I know that rider that Manchin wants on there is a cause of contention.

[Timewas]

1. Let it go

Let it go and pay the price, they don't give a fuck about the people that it will hurt. I think they need to quit kicking it down the road and either vote it in without all the histrionics or let it fail and pay the price. But quit all the BS they have had a year to work it out.

[Mr. Sparkle]

2. In order to pass the bill with bipartisan support , we should remove the Manchin clause

Sorry Joe.

[jimfields33]

5. They need 60 votes?

50 repugs with 10 democratic votes should do it. Are repugs against a pipeline? That’d be a first.

[Carlitos Brigante]

7. I would assume they're all for it as usual. But just want to smack Mansion for his

perceived "betrayal".

[Demsrule86]

6. No, absolutely not...and agreement was reached and should be honored. I don't particularly

like the agreement but a deal is a deal...and we will be blamed if it fails.

[Bayard]

3. This shit AGAIN!

Why do they always have to wait till the last possible moment so that its a crisis?

[BumRushDaShow]

4. It's how they get "leverage"

to extort policy and funding demands.

Went through over 30 years of the appropriation brinksmanship before I retired. I think only a handful of times (and one may have been when Clinton was President) when all 12 (at the time) appropriations bills had been submitted on time. In the recent 15 - 20 years, they have been doing "Minibus" appropriations, bundling several departments in smaller bills vs an "Omnibus" type, lumping most in together in a huge, several thousand page monstrosity. One of the other times was back when that "Budget Control Act" was passed and it included appropriations for 2 fiscal year cycles so that 2nd year had no CRs needed nor threats of a shut down looming.