Shutdown drama nears

Via Ground News, VOA: House Republicans seek to avoid shutdown while Moody Lowers Credit Outlook

Funding runs out in less than a week, or so they say. Moody was said to have cited political troubles as a reason for the downgrade. Moody may be running interference for the Big Government types on both sides of the aisle. The budget could be balanced if the House refused to fund the exorbitant rate of spending, and just ran the government on funds received from taxation.

But that would make too much sense.

More info on the nation's finances from the US Government.    Update a little while later: " Speaker Johnson full of sh*t. Con man. McCarthy clone. "



Update later, after sundown:



Whatever happened to regular order? This is just another surrender to the left wing. This guy's a "conservative"? What ever that is supposed to mean... eyeroll...





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