General Political Fúckery Thread: Elon Musk blows up stopgap spending bill, Government Shutdown looming on 12/21/24

[ADevilYouKhow]

Senate Reaches Spending Deal to Head Off Government Shutdown (Published 2023)

An agreement between Senate Republicans and Democrats would keep agencies open through mid-November and provide billions in aid for Ukraine and disaster relief. But House Republicans are likely to balk.

www.nytimes.com

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

U.S. Accuses Amazon of Illegally Protecting Monopoly in Online Retail

The Federal Trade Commission and 17 states sued Amazon, saying its conduct in its online store and services to merchants illegally stifled competition.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Hood Critic]

Senate Reaches Spending Deal to Head Off Government Shutdown (Published 2023)

An agreement between Senate Republicans and Democrats would keep agencies open through mid-November and provide billions in aid for Ukraine and disaster relief. But House Republicans are likely to balk.

www.nytimes.com

border security package

 

[Hood Critic]

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Yellen details tighter scrutiny of investment plans of foreign-owned companies in the U.S.

The federal government reviews and can block business activity of non-U.S. companies through the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.

www.pbs.org

 

[AquaCityBoy]

Chris Jansing is 66.

GOAT aging for a white woman.

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Thank you, Biden

 

[Reality Check]

at her going in

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

U.S. government starts notifying federal employees a shutdown may be imminent — The Washington Post

The message will serve to acknowledge the growing risk that millions of employees may stop receiving pay, unless lawmakers can avert a government shutdown.

apple.news

Republicans are responsible

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

One Casualty of a Shutdown: Government Data

A lapse in funding would delay data on unemployment and inflation as policymakers try to avoid a recession.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Serious]

That time again:

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

When Back to School Means Reliving the Worst Day in Your Life

Eight years ago, Brenda Valenzuela survived a mass shooting. Now she must send her own children to school.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Serious]

https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1707322000996274333?s=46&t=LEgcAj2qtmBxsLOShuVr3Q

 

[Dillah810]

House approves amendment from Marjorie Taylor Greene to cut Lloyd Austin's salary to $1

The House voted to approve an amendment from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., to cut Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s salary to $1 on Wednesday.

www.usatoday.com

Austin, the first Black Secretary of Defense, makes more than $221,000 annually, according to Defense News. For her amendment, Greene said that she used the Holman rule, which “allows amendments to appropriations legislation that would reduce the salary of or fire specific federal employees, or cut a specific program,” according to the House Rules Committee.

 

[Hood Critic]