Government shutdown looms as new speaker struggles to control hardliners

[haele]

14. No. It doesn't fund HHS, the Treasury, the Interior...

Agriculture, Education, Communications, Labor, Justice, State...the GAO, the GSA ..
All programs that don't stop just because it's "the holidays"; even though some pet programs might keep running, they need to keep going throughout the year for the government to function smoothly as well, and precious taxpayer money isn't wasted bringing critical programs back online after two months sitting idle creating backlogs.
The Government as a whole doesn't "holiday". There's still a lot of offices open and work being done.
Millions of people and thousands of time - critical projects are going to be affected, and even just a two week shutdown will have adverse implications for months. A two month shutdown will create problems for people and projects for a year.
Been there, done that before. It always ended badly, especially for working people and GOP house members who weren't in safe, deep red and ignorant districts. It also hit bottom lines for all sorts of big businesses that didn't expect they would be affected.

Haele