SHUTDOWN is based on a lie. THE LIE that it's legally mandated. It's not. This is an evil stunt.
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WE'LL REMIND YOU ONCE AGAIN (and bravo to Kim Iversen for researching this): Government shutdown is a stupendous scam that both parties play into for what they can emotionally get out of it from the public. IT IS TOTALLY UNNECESSARY and can be ended this second. THERE IS NO LAW MANDATING a government shutdown when we are calendar-overdue for a new budget. SHUTDOWN IS NOT LEGALLY MANDATED; it began as a one-time stunt.. and turned into a ritual. IT IS NOT LEGALLY MANDATED. This shutdown is a total scam being run for drama by BOTH parties. Repeating there is no law mandating shutdown. Until a new budget is approved, you just keep the other budget running -until you pass the new one. That's how it always used to be before one year some decades ago- when this stunting began. THERE IS NO LAW MANDATING such shutdowns. Maybe you want to let people in legacy media know this also, so they start doing their job and asking the WH.... Why the shutdown if it is not legally mandated?
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As for Trump and his minions saying, "Pass the temp budget GOP has put on the table, and then we can talk later about the healthcare costs-mess." LOL, yeah, that might have worked in 2017 when he was brand new. But now? His word isn't worth a bit of piss in a dental rinse cup. So whatever he says on the subject is hot air for the moment and cannot be banked on. That's why you can't expect Dems to stop their girded standoff over an airy promise from DJT. As for the subsidies which pay some part of many Americans' healthcare costs... DJT is taking the completely wrong approach. Trying to sledgehammer down the payments. If there's any reason left in the halls of the WH, what they should do is extend the subsidies at a fraction. HALF OR LESS. Until "something" more reasonable and lasting might be done about the absurd costs of health care. Don't know who's going to do it, though. This seems like a job for Superman... Clark, can you give him a call?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/schumer-pushes-shutdown-record-books-after-rejecting-gop-bill-14th-time
Now hear this -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTAXbXIXOy4
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Query - Previous to the 1980's if Congress did not pass a new budget "on time" government simply ran on the previous budget until a new one was passed.. Correct? Prior to the 1980's there were no shutdowns over budget timing; correct?
Google's AI Overview ANSWER:
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Yes, that is correct. Prior to the early 1980s, the federal government typically did not shut down even if the new fiscal year started without all appropriations bills passed.
How the process worked... Continuous Operations: When a funding gap occurred, government agencies would generally continue their operations, albeit often minimizing non-essential activities like new grants or travel. There was an expectation that Congress would eventually pass the necessary funding bills (often through continuing resolutions or supplemental bills), and employees would be paid retroactively.
No Automatic Continuation Law: There wasn't a formal law for an "automatic continuing resolution" at previous year's levels. Instead, it was simply a common-sense long-standing practice, an "easygoing attitude" based on the assumption that Congress intended for government services to continue without disruption.
The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 created a new fiscal year (starting October 1st) and a more formal, challenging timeline for passing spending bills. This new process led to more frequent funding gaps in the late 1970s.
The Civiletti *Opinion* (1981): The crucial change that led to modern-style shutdowns came from a legal *opinion* issued by Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti under President Jimmy Carter. Civiletti interpreted the Antideficiency Act (a long-standing law prohibiting agencies from spending money in excess of what was appropriated) much more strictly, stating that agencies had no legal basis to operate during a funding gap and had to cease non-essential functions. THIS WAS SIMPLY AN OPINION, not a law, not a statutory mandate.
Modern Shutdowns Begin: Following the *opinion*, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) began requiring agencies to develop shutdown plans. The first major shutdowns involving employee furloughs began in the fiscal year 1982 appropriations process.
Prior to these modern-era ritualized shutdowns, operations continued fluidly till passage of a new budget.. without the wide-scale, disruptive shutdowns seen in modern decades.