The media bemoans Trump's shutdown now heading for its third week if no resolutions aren't made.
But, Trump's shutdown could outdo them all according to the AP story:
AP: Talks to resume after Trump says shutdown could last 'years'
And that is not a very good prospect having this shutdown last for a full year or more until he gets his wall. I think it is typical for someone like Trump to use the bully pulpit in order to get his way, in this fashion. If he succeeds his reelection is assured, if not his presidency is finished. Even if he got to build the wall is there any guarantees that it will prevent illegal aliens to come storming the border? There are examples of walls being built on the borders of countries, one comes to mind, the great wall of China. That wall too was used to prevent people from coming in China.
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The Daily Caller: KERNS: REMEMBER WHEN OBAMA AND CLINTON SHUT DOWN GOVERNMENT FOR THEIR OWN PET PROJECTS?
Quote: "It was President Obama who shut the government in 2013 specifically over his namesake pet project — “Obamacare” — after Congress declined to fully fund his Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
By comparison, Obama’s was a “complete” shutdown, whereas Trump’s is only a “partial” shutdown. In fact, Obama’s action was more damaging to workers than Trump’s. Obama furloughed far more government employees – more than 800,000 workers were furloughed without pay, while another 1.3 million were asked to work without pay. Compare that to just 380,000 furloughed workers and 420,000 exempt employees working without pay under Trump until the partial shutdown ends." ----JEN KERNS
Background information Source: wikipedia
United States federal government shutdown of 2013
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_government_shutdown_of_2013
From October 1 to October 17, 2013, the United States federal government entered a shutdown and curtailed most routine operations because neither legislation appropriating funds for fiscal year 2014 nor a continuing resolution for the interim authorization of appropriations for fiscal year 2014 was enacted in time. Regular government operations resumed October 17 after an interim appropriations bill was signed into law.
During the shutdown, approximately 800,000 federal employees were indefinitely furloughed, and another 1.3 million were required to report to work without known payment dates. Only those government services deemed "excepted" under the Antideficiency Act were continued; and only those employees deemed "excepted" continued to report to work. The previous U.S. federal government shutdown was in 1995–96. The 16-day-long shutdown of October 2013 was the third-longest government shutdown in U.S. history, after the 18-day shutdown in 1978 and the 21-day 1995–96 shutdown.
A "funding-gap" was created when the two chambers of Congress failed to agree to an appropriations continuing resolution. The Republican-led House of Representatives, in part encouraged by conservative senators such as Ted Cruz[5] and conservative groups such as Heritage Action, offered several continuing resolutions with language delaying or defunding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (commonly known as "Obamacare"). The Democratic-led Senate passed several amended continuing resolutions for maintaining funding at then-current sequestration levels with no additional conditions. Political fights over this and other issues between the House on one side and President Barack Obama and the Senate on the other led to a budget impasse which threatened massive disruption.
The deadlock centered on the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2014, which was passed by the House of Representatives on September 20, 2013. The Senate stripped the bill of the measures related to the Affordable Care Act, and passed it in revised form on September 27, 2013. The House reinstated the Senate-removed measures, and passed it again in the early morning hours on September 29.
The Senate declined to pass the bill with measures to delay the Affordable Care Act, and the two legislative houses did not develop a compromise bill by the end of September 30, 2013, causing the federal government to shut down due to a lack of appropriated funds at the start of the new 2014 federal fiscal year. Also, on October 1, 2013, many aspects of the Affordable Care Act implementation took effect. he health insurance exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act launched as scheduled on October 1.
Much of the Affordable Care Act is funded by previously authorized and mandatory spending, rather than discretionary spending, and the presence or lack of a continuing resolution did not affect it. Some of the law's funds also come from multiple-year and "no-year" discretionary funds that are not affected by a lack of a continuing resolution.[15] Late in the evening of October 16, 2013, Congress passed the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014, and the President signed it shortly after midnight on October 17, ending the government shutdown and suspending the debt limit until February 7, 2014.
According to a Washington Post/ABC News poll conducted several months following the shutdown, 81% of Americans disapproved of the shutdown, 86% felt it had damaged the United States' image in the world, and 53% held Republicans in Congress accountable for the shutdown
Clinton's shutdowns 1995-96
Back ground source Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_government_shutdowns_of_1995%E2%80%931996
The United States federal government shutdowns of 1995 and 1995–96 were the result of conflicts between Democratic President Bill Clinton and the Republican Congress over funding for Medicare, education, the environment, and public health in the 1996 federal budget. The government shut down after Clinton vetoed the spending bill the Republican Party-controlled Congress sent him. The federal government of the United States put government workers on furlough and suspended non-essential services from November 14 through November 19, 1995, and from December 16, 1995, to January 6, 1996, for a total of 27 days. The major players were President Clinton and Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich.
When the previous fiscal year ended on September 30, 1995, the Democratic President and the Republican-controlled Congress had not passed a budget. A majority of Congress members and the House Speaker, Newt Gingrich, had promised to slow the rate of government spending; however, this conflicted with the President's objectives for education, the environment, Medicare, and public health. According to Bill Clinton's autobiography, their differences resulted from differing estimates of economic growth, medical inflation, and anticipated revenues.
When Clinton refused to cut the budget in the way Republicans wanted, Gingrich threatened to refuse to raise the debt limit, which would have caused the United States Treasury to suspend funding other portions of the government to avoid putting the country in default.
Clinton said Republican amendments would strip the U.S. Treasury of its ability to dip into federal trust funds to avoid a borrowing crisis. Republican amendments would have limited appeals by death-row inmates, made it harder to issue health, safety and environmental regulations, and would have committed the President to a seven-year budget plan. Clinton vetoed a second bill allowing the government to keep operating beyond the time when most spending authority expires. A GOP amendment opposed by Clinton would not only have increased Medicare Part B premiums, but it would also cancel a scheduled reduction. The Republicans held out for an increase in Medicare part B premiums in January 1996 to $53.50 a month. Clinton favored the then current law, which was to let the premium that seniors pay drop to $42.50.
Since a budget for the new fiscal year was not approved, on October 1 the entire federal government operated on a continuing resolution authorizing interim funding for departments until new budgets were approved. The continuing resolution was set to expire on November 13 at midnight, at which time non-essential government services were required to cease operations in order to prevent expending funds that had not yet been appropriated. Congress passed a continuing resolution for funding and a bill to limit debt, which Clinton vetoed as he denounced them as "backdoor efforts" to cut the budget in a partisan manner.
On November 13, Republican and Democratic leaders, including Vice President Al Gore, Dick Armey, and Bob Dole, met to try to resolve the budget and were unable to reach an agreement.
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WORLD NEWS HEADLINES
( From the UN News Center and other sources)Attack on UN compound in Somalia may be 'violation of international humanitarian law'.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres strongly condemned Tuesday’s attacks against the UN compound in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, saying that intentionally attacking UN personnel may constitute "a violation of international humanitarian law.”
https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/01/1029642
On the first day of 2019, over 395,000 babies to be born worldwide: UNICEF.
As the calendar flips to 2019, about 395,072 babies will be born around the world, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday, adding that a quarter will be born in South Asia alone.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/01/1029592
UN refugee agency presses States to aid 49 refugees stranded on Mediterranean.
The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR), on the last day of 2018, called on UN Member States to urgently offer safe ports of disembarkation for 49 refugees and migrants, including young children, aboard rescue vessels in the Mediterranean Sea.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2018/12/1029582
As the year closes out, UN political chief talks the art of diplomacy – and crises to watch in 2019.
As the world – and the United Nations – continues to grapple with political crises, we look at the political landscape with Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo. We begin by asking her what it’s like to be the top UN political officer.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2018/12/1029632
‘Stealing’ food from hungry Yemenis ‘must stop immediately’, says UN agency.
After uncovering evidence that humanitarian food supplies are being diverted in Yemen’s Houthi-controlled capital, Sana’a, and other parts of the country, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has demanded an immediate end to the practice.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2018/12/1029542
IN THIS WEEK'S EDITION
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NOW THIS WORD FROM KIM JONG-UN!
Lift sanctions or we keep nukes!
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STILL NO DEAL IN ENDING SHUT DOWN.
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Presidential Message on National Stalking Awareness Month.
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR INVESTIGATION RESULTS IN NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES RECEIVING $96,995
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Kilmer Statement on House Funding Bills.
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ON HIS QUEST FOR THE PRESIDENCY, INSLEE GIVES HIS ANNUAL REPORT.
NIGHT OWL COMICS PRESENTS: The search for Noah and his ark.
Sign petition : The expulsion of Rashida Tlaib from Congress for blatant Code of Ethics violation.
To have a newly sworn in congressperson speak in such a way about a sitting President shows a lack of ethics and decorum. This can not stand, she must be expelled immediately so as not to encourage this type of behavior. (petition link)
Editorial note: I agree to have this level of disgraceful conduct is not befitting a member of congress.
