Shutdown Over?
Sen. Chuck Schumer
A group of shutdown-weary Democratic senators voted with Republicans Sunday night to advance a legislative vehicle to reopen the federal government and end the 40-day shutdown that has left tens of thousands of workers furloughed and caused chaos at the nation’s airports.
The Senate voted 60-40 to proceed to a House-passed continuing resolution to reopen the government, taking a big first step toward ending the shutdown after a group of centrist Democrats negotiated a funding deal with Senate Republican colleagues and the White House.
BY ALEXANDER BOLTON, ‘The Hill’
The shutdown may be over but the politics of funding will never go away as long as ceasing government operations remains a politcal stop gap option. The Government has been under the threat of stopping functions ever since the mid 1990s when the first grand stand off happened and things have never really been the same sever since. The rest of the World watches in astonishment at the almost yearly shutdowns which is emblematic of a political system in turmoil.
