More McConnell on prospect of another shutdown: "We're not going to do it," says other GOP leaders agree — Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias) October 17, 2013 McConnell saying there won't be another shutdown is interesting, but GOP leadership originally opposed this shutdown.
It funds the government through Jan . 15and lifts the debt limit until Feb. 7. If no deals are crafted, Washington could find itself on the brink of another shutdown standoff.
That ought to mean it can get past Congress, where House Republicans are unlikely to bring on another government shutdown while they are having such fun with Obamacare.If the proposed deal does pass it will restore some optimism that the legislative branch is not quite as broken as it seemed.
--No seemdown: Republintentseem intent on avoiding another shutdown; their leadership seems to have cordoned off the Cruz faction, at least for now.
The flow of judicial and executive confirmations will slow, the budget will run on autopilot absent another shutdown threat, and a series of standoffs will give way to the 2016 elections.
Making matters worse, they had started, before the shutdown, to turn on one another.
House Democrats fed up by the Republicans' past refusal to compromise and outraged over the handling of disaster aid (something some Republicans also did not like) responded with their own hard-line tactics, refusing to supply Republican leaders with the votes they needed to pass the must-pass measure, leaving the government on the brink of yet another shutdown.
Unless the two parties can agree on a budget deal the government will run out of money again, bringing another partial shutdown on January 15th.
David Thompson spoke to Jane Foley and Dame DeAnne Julius on the US shutdown on the options and possibilities, including US firms sending home their UK-based staff.
All the Murray-Ryan deal would do, in essence, is split the difference between House and Senate spending proposals, give federal agencies a little more flexibility to adjust to the budget cuts imposed by the sequester, and — the main thing — avoid the prospect of another government shutdown on Jan . 15
