US Government Shutdown!! Republicans and Democrats can't come to an agreement on a "HOT topic"

At 12:01 am on Saturday, January 20, the federal government shut down.

Republicans and Democrats are boasting about how the other party did not submit under the opposed parties argument on how this action could have been disengaged. Failing agreements came this week on immigration. House Republicans passed a bill on Thursday to fund the government for four weeks and extend the Children’s Health Insurance Program for six years, after Congress had failed to reauthorize that program for the last four months. However a procedural vote late Friday, which needed 60 votes to advance the House spending bill, 45 Senate Democrats and five Senate Republicans rejected it. The infamous "shithole" meeting has just commenced. Democrats felt they had no choice to reject the House spending bill to force DACA negotiations. They were joined by several Republicans also working on DACA and angry over the inability to cut a long-term funding deal for the military. Whether they will succeed will be determined in the coming days. Republicans are digging in to pit DACA recipients against CHIP, even though their majority had failed to make the program’s extension. Who know's who will bend over?

What does a federal shutdown actually mean?

A government shutdown means a lot of “nonessential” government activities suddenly cease. During shutdowns, federal employees are split into “essential” and “nonessential” groups. Nonessential employees receive furloughs: They stop getting paid and are off work until the shutdown is resolved. Essential workers also stop getting paid, but they still have to work. Usually when a shutdown is over, federal employees are paid back the salaries they went without. A shutdown usually suspends a lot of government functions. Though the military, air traffic control, federal prisons, and Social Security and other benefit payments typically aren’t affected, the Office of Management and Budget estimated that the shutdown resulted in 120,000 fewer jobs and cut economic growth by 0.2 to 0.6 percent in the last quarter of 2013, the last time the government shut down.

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