• Senate Parlamentarian: Fast-Track Healthcare Reconciliation Expires September 30th
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[quote]The Senate parliamentarian has ruled that Republican lawmakers face a Sept. 30 deadline to repeal Obamacare with only 50 votes, according to Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee. Republicans had been relying on a fast-track budget measure known as reconciliation in their effort to repeal Obamacare, which stalled weeks ago. The parliamentarian ruled that the budget measure expires at the end of the month when fiscal 2017 ends, meaning any repeal effort beyond that date would need 60 votes to overcome a Democratic filibuster. The House GOP’s budget resolution for fiscal 2018 does not include any instructions on health care, which would likely kill the party’s chances of an Obamacare repeal redo next year. [/quote] [url]http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/01/obamacare-repeal-fast-track-timeline-242261[/url] Is the repeal nightmare almost over? Tune in next month to find out! I expect trump to throw another tantrum and demand republicans repeal the filibuster.
I'm going to lose my shit if the Republicans simultaneously fail to repeal the ACA [B]and[/B] cause a government shutdown.
Just to remind everyone, here's what Congress needs to do when everyone comes back to DC and goes to work on Tuesday: - Authorize initial emergency disaster relief for Harvey recovery efforts, cost: $as many billion as you can find - Lift the debt ceiling by September 29th or the USA is at critical risk of default - Pass either a budget or, more likely, a temporary spending measure to buy time, to prevent the federal government from shutting down as early as September 30th - Pass a must-pass spending bill allocating huge chunks of money to funding authorizations for critical programs like the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program (:vs:) and a minor little thing called [I]the FAA[/I], all of which finish their mandated funding authorizations at the end of the month and must be reauthorized by Congress - As this thread states, finish whatever they're going to use their health care reconciliation card on before it runs out the end of the month or else they have to deal with the filibuster because they literally couldn't agree on a plan while holding the one-party rule stick for [I]months[/I] They have 12 to 14 working days to do these things or else the federal government may shut down, the United States may default and set up conditions for a global economic crash, critical federal services may be unable to pay their bills/staff, and hurricane/flood disaster efforts stall while waiting for funding and authorization. Also remember: - On the debt ceiling, no one in DC can agree on a plan. Most Democrats and some Republicans want a clean debt ceiling bill passed. Fiscal hawks, primarily Republicans, see that as a continuation of the tradition of unrestrained fiscal excess and want spending cuts attached to the bill or replacing a ceiling lift with cuts. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has been pushing for months for Congress to adopt a clean debt ceiling bill. Office of Management and Budget Secretary Mick Mulvaney, on the other hand, supports pairing cuts with any cap changes. [I]Not even the White House can agree on what to do.[/I] - Trump is insistent that any bill provide funding for his wall and even Republicans are starting to balk at actually giving the stupid idea a billion dollars. Two weeks ago Trump threatened to shut the government down by vetoing any budget bill that refused to fund part of the wall, but [URL="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/09/01/trump-pulls-back-threat-to-shutdown-government-over-border-wall-for-now/"]he seems to have now softened his stance by letting Congress off the hook[/URL] from having to cram it into a continuing resolution to keep the government open until the end of December ("can I have an extension on my homework?" is what I call responsible governance :downs:) but he's still insistent that it happens before the end of the year. So, [I]deliberate[/I] shutdown threat by the President averted. For this quarter. You'll never guess what Daddy D wrapped for you under the Christmas tree. - Until the budget is sorted out, Republicans can't pass tax reform, which they again intend to use budget reconciliation to ram it through via one-party rule when they get to the Senate. Tax revenue is down sharply because Trump promised a big tax reform package and many big movers delayed tax payments or transactions altogether while waiting for this more hospitable climate to arrive, like when a new iPhone is announced too early and people hold off on purchases and upgrades, slumping Apple's sales harder than expected. The Trump administration is on track to balloon the deficit through incompetence, negligence, and debilitating lack of coordination. - Harvey is a disaster unlike any the US has seen before and well exceeds Katrina. The cost to clean it up could be over $150 billion in the long run, and while rain is still falling elsewhere it's impossible to know where this ends. So let's throw that big fat check onto the pile of fiscal woes facing the government. The disaster relief fund only had a few billion in it when Harvey hit and the government needs to allocate funding and fast. [URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/nyregion/house-passes-50-7-billion-in-hurricane-aid.html"]And Northeastern Republicans haven't forgotten when their Republican colleagues, including most of the Texan delegation, fought the $50 billion aid package for Hurricane Sandy.[/URL] [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/us/politics/harvey-congress-aid-trump-cruz-sandy.html"]In-party catfighting is already in progress.[/URL] [QUOTE]Four years after only 49 House Republicans, and just one from the Texas delegation, voted to approve the aid package drafted in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Mr. Cole said he expected to see far more support in his Southern-dominated caucus for Harvey-related assistance. As a hard-line House conservative from South Carolina, Mick Mulvaney, then a representative, was a leading voice in calling for Sandy-related spending to be offset with across-the-board cuts. Mr. Mulvaney now directs the White House Office of Management and Budget. “I wonder if he’ll be demanding offsets now that he’s O.M.B. director?” Mr. Cole mused. “Probably not.” House fiscal hawks fear that the 36-member Texas delegation along with a publicity-obsessed president will ram through a multibillion dollar package without any regard to the deficit. “There’s not going to be any pushback from the administration, and this thing will move,” predicted Representative Mark Sanford, Republican of South Carolina, adding, “It is indicative and reflective of the fact that fiscal discipline is out of vogue in Washington.”[/QUOTE] [media]https://twitter.com/RepLoBiondo/status/902165160252583937[/media] [media]https://twitter.com/RepPeteKing/status/901824286754791424[/media] Is America great again now? Is this what it looks like?
[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;52638158] - Harvey is a disaster unlike any the US has seen before and exceeds Katrina. The cost to clean it up could be over $150 billion in the long run, and while rain is still falling elsewhere it's impossible to know where this ends. So let's throw that big fat check onto the pile of fiscal woes facing the government. The disaster relief fund only had a few billion in it when Harvey hit and the government needs to allocate funding and fast. [URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/nyregion/house-passes-50-7-billion-in-hurricane-aid.html"]And Northeastern Republicans haven't forgotten when their Republican colleagues, including most of the Texan delegation, fought the $50 billion aid package for Hurricane Sandy.[/URL] [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/us/politics/harvey-congress-aid-trump-cruz-sandy.html"]In-party catfighting is already in progress.[/URL][/QUOTE] -Addendum: A second Hurricane has formed as a Category Three, and is heading towards the Carolinas, and may also hit Florida.
[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;52638158]Just to remind everyone, here's what Congress needs to do when everyone comes back to DC and goes to work on Tuesday: - Authorize initial emergency disaster relief for Harvey recovery efforts, cost: $as many billion as you can find - Lift the debt ceiling by September 29th or the USA is at critical risk of default - Pass either a budget or, more likely, a temporary spending measure to buy time, to prevent the federal government from shutting down as early as September 30th - Pass a must-pass spending bill allocating huge chunks of money to funding authorizations for critical programs like the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program (:vs:) and a minor little thing called [I]the FAA[/I], all of which finish their mandated funding authorizations at the end of the month and must be reauthorized by Congress - As this thread states, finish whatever they're going to use their health care reconciliation card on before it runs out the end of the month or else they have to deal with the filibuster because they literally couldn't agree on a plan while holding the one-party rule stick for [I]months[/I] They have as 12 to 14 working days to do these things or else the federal government may shut down, the United States may default and set up conditions for a global economic crash, critical federal services may be unable to pay their bills/staff, and hurricane/flood disaster efforts stall while waiting for funding and authorization. Also remember: - On the debt ceiling, no one in DC can agree on a plan. Most Democrats and some Republicans want a clean debt ceiling bill passed. Fiscal hawks, primarily Republicans, see that as a continuation of the tradition of unrestrained fiscal excess and want spending cuts attached to the bill or replacing a ceiling lift with cuts. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has been pushing for months for Congress to adopt a clean debt ceiling bill. Office of Management and Budget Secretary Mick Mulvaney, on the other hand, supports pairing cuts with any cap changes. [I]Not even the White House can agree on what to do.[/I] - Trump is insistent that any bill provide funding for his wall and even Republicans are starting to balk at actually giving the stupid idea a billion dollars. Two weeks ago Trump threatened to shut the government down by vetoing any budget bill that refused to fund part of the wall, but [URL="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/09/01/trump-pulls-back-threat-to-shutdown-government-over-border-wall-for-now/"]he seems to have now softened his stance by letting Congress off the hook[/URL] from having to cram it into a continuing resolution to keep the government open until the end of December ("can I have an extension on my homework?" is what I call responsible governance :downs:) but he's still insistent that it happens before the end of the year. So, [I]deliberate[/I] shutdown threat by the President averted. For this quarter. You'll never guess what Daddy D wrapped for you under the Christmas tree. - Until the budget is sorted out, Republicans can't pass tax reform, which they again intend to use budget reconciliation to ram it through via one-party rule when they get to the Senate. Tax revenue is down sharply because Trump promised a big tax reform package and many big movers delayed tax payments or transactions altogether while waiting for this more hospitable climate to arrive, like when a new iPhone is announced too early and people hold off on purchases and upgrades, slumping Apple's sales harder than expected. The Trump administration is on track to balloon the deficit through incompetence, negligence, and debilitating lack of coordination. - Harvey is a disaster unlike any the US has seen before and well exceeds Katrina. The cost to clean it up could be over $150 billion in the long run, and while rain is still falling elsewhere it's impossible to know where this ends. So let's throw that big fat check onto the pile of fiscal woes facing the government. The disaster relief fund only had a few billion in it when Harvey hit and the government needs to allocate funding and fast. [URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/nyregion/house-passes-50-7-billion-in-hurricane-aid.html"]And Northeastern Republicans haven't forgotten when their Republican colleagues, including most of the Texan delegation, fought the $50 billion aid package for Hurricane Sandy.[/URL] [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/us/politics/harvey-congress-aid-trump-cruz-sandy.html"]In-party catfighting is already in progress.[/URL] [media]https://twitter.com/RepLoBiondo/status/902165160252583937[/media] [media]https://twitter.com/RepPeteKing/status/901824286754791424[/media] Is America great again now? Is this what it looks like?[/QUOTE] I hope I don't have to wake up on my birthday to the world imploding
[QUOTE=OmniConsUme;52638194]-Addendum: A second Hurricane has formed as a Category Three, and is heading towards the Carolinas, and may also hit Florida.[/QUOTE] Yeah, that's only going to complicate things, but they've at least got a chance to pass a continuing resolution that stocks the disaster recovery coffers enough such that the government should be able to mount a response to the southeast while still working to clean up Harvey. [I]Everything is fine.[/I] :vs:
Oh, also they can only use the FY2018 reconciliation golden ticket on one item, either tax reform or healthcare reform, not both, at least not realistically. they could roll healthcare taxes into tax reform buuuutt... you kinda get the idea on how impossible that would be to pull off, one little piece out of place and the parliamentarian could rule the whole thing bunk, which is kinda why reconciliation is a horrible tool for rewriting large complicated things.
so what you all are saying is i should buy ammo and MREs, right?
[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;52640162]so what you all are saying is i should buy ammo and MREs, right?[/QUOTE] buy gold and bitcoin
[QUOTE=TheHydra;52640198]buy gold and bitcoin[/QUOTE] please, everybody know the real hedge currency is TI-84's they never ever depreciate.
[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;52640162]so what you all are saying is i should buy ammo and MREs, right?[/QUOTE] Buy ammo reloading kits, learn how to manufacture nitrates from pigeon shit on bridges, and how to jerryrig non-sulfur gunpowder. Also zippo lighters and ferrorods are your friends. People do not realize how important fire making is, until it is far too late.
Fuck gold invest in LEGO sets.
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