Republicans in Congress will try to pass a stopgap spending bill this week to avert a partial government shutdown and keep the government running through September, though they’ll need Democrats’ help to do it.
The 99-page stopgap spending bill, which House Republicans released over the weekend, is required since lawmakers haven’t made any progress conferencing the dozen annual government funding bills that were supposed to become law by Oct. 1.
The continuing resolution, the third since October, would fund the federal government for the rest of fiscal year 2025 — marking the first time since fiscal 2013 that Congress has leaned on stopgap spending bills for the entire year, according to a report from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service.
I hate that I genuinely can’t tell if this is satire or not. The quoted parts at least.
I was gonna put an /s on it but I thought it was more fun to leave it ambiguous.
The quotes are not real (except the “we won’t be held hostage by small dollar donors” is a paraphrasing of something that recently came out of some dnc think tank about what to do going forward)
Yea it was the “small dollar donors” part that threw me off.
Well done, you :)
Dude, I was so confused because I really wondered if theyf had capitulated that far backwards. The money part though, I started sniffing something funny.
They have. Just not as publicly as all this implies.
Fully had me in the first half
Also if you say this over in sh.it justworks politics you’ll probably get banned, so this might just be early!
That’s because satire is well and truly dead
Satire is alive and doing quite well. It has entirely usurped reality.