Senate rejects competing bills to fund government, increasing risk of shutdown on Oct. 1

[Dulcinea]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate rejected competing measures on Friday to fund federal agencies for a few weeks when the new budget year begins on Oct. 1, increasing prospects for a partial government shutdown on that date.

Leaders of the two parties sought to blame the other side for the standoff. Democrats accused Republicans of not negotiating with them to address some of their priorities on health care as part of the funding measure, even though they knew Democratic votes would be needed to get a bill to the president's desk.

Republicans said Democrats were making demands that would dramatically increase spending and were not germane to the core issue of keeping agencies fully running for a short period of time while negotiations continued on a full-year spending package.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/house-voting-funding-patch-parties-040711176.html

[Zorro]

1. I expect the government will be shut down

Think it will be the third time in Trump's five years in office.

I also wouldn't be surprised if he uses the government shutdown as a national emergency pretext to declare martial law.