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Senate Passes One-Week DHS-Funding Stop-Gap Bill, House Expected To Pass
UPDATE: In late night negotiations, the Senate has managed to buy themselves a week before this whole farce is played over again:
- SENATE PASSES ONE-WEEK DHS STOPGAP SPENDING BILL
House GOP Aides Expect One-Week Measure To Pass With Democratic Support
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As we warned was entirely possible, with just hours to go until The Department of Homeland Security runs out of money at midnight:
- *HOUSE FAILS TO PASS STOPGAP FUNDING FOR U.S. HOMELAND SECURITY
While more votes are expected tonight (and this weekend), as The Guardian reports, a handful of Republicans defied Boehner's leadership and joined with Democrats to defeat the bill.
- *MCCARTHY SAYS HOUSE COULD HAVE MORE VOTES TODAY, THIS WEEKEND
John Boehner’s first attempt to keep the Department of Homeland Security from running out of money at midnight failed in the House of Representatives after dozens of Republicans baulked at his plan to fund it for just three more weeks.
The House speaker had been hoping to prevent a shutdown by buying time to negotiate with conservatives in his caucus over their demands that the bill include a measure to prevent Barack Obama from deferring deportation of undocumented immigrants.
But even this three-week stop gap was rejected by 30-odd Republican congressman who defied their party leadership and joined with Democrats to voted against the bill by 224 to 203 just after 5pm. The department runs out of funds at midnight.
Democrats resisted Boehner’s proposal in the hope of forcing House Republicans to follow their colleagues in the Senate and agree a one-year funding bill.
But the impasse now sets up a dangerous game of chicken between the parties as each tries to see who will blink first before current funding for the department expires at midnight.
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What happens if we go into the weekend without a DHS deal? In the event of a shutdown, the vast majority of DHS employees would stay on the job. DHS Secretary Johnson said earlier this week that about 30,000 of DHS's approximately 240,000 employees would be furloughed. The rest would be considered exempt and most would have to work without pay.
For everyone else, a brief shutdown won't have an impact. Should the shutdown drag on, this is how DHS official describe the "state-less" hell that would be unleashed:
FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
- If a major snowstorm or earthquake or even terrorist attack hits a city or state, DHS won’t be able to send the state federal funds for recovery.
- State and local authorities rely on federal grants to afford many of their first responders, but new grant requests won’t be processed – potentially forcing cities and towns across the country to cut back on police, fire and ambulance services.
- Each month, FEMA trains thousands of state and local emergency personnel how to handle “very specialized” cases such as those involving Ebola, anthrax or sarin gas, but that training will stop.
CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION (INC. BORDER PATROL & CUSTOMS OFFICERS)
- 500 recruits currently in training in Georgia will be sent home, wasting significant amounts of taxpayer money already invested in them and possibly losing them as recruits.
- CBP won’t be able to replace or upgrade aging surveillance systems along the Southwest border
- Certain criminal cases against those trying to cross the border illegally or smuggle prohibited items into the United States will slow or stop, especially after lawyers at CBP are sent home.
SECRET SERVICE
- The Secret Service won’t be able to make certain security upgrades at the White House in the wake of several recent breaches there.
- The 2016 presidential candidates could be put at risk because the Secret Service won’t be able to pay “for the things we need” to protect them.
IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT
- ICE will miss out on hundreds of millions of dollars intended to address “unaccompanied minors” and families still crossing the Southwest border illegally.
TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
- “Nothing to report here,” though training and other “non-essential administrative functions would cease.”
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As SMRA notes, If a shutdown occurs, we think it would be brief. The political repercussions of shutting the DHS could be negative, especially given recent events including threats to U.S. shopping malls and today's arrest in Brooklyn of three individuals charged with aiding the Islamic State.
In the event of a shutdown, the vast majority of DHS employees would stay on the job. DHS Secretary Johnson said earlier this week that about 30,000 of DHS's approximately 240,000 employees would be furloughed. The rest would be considered exempt and most would have to work without pay.
DHS hasn't published a detailed breakdown of employees that would be furloughed or exempt like it did in advance of the 2013 government shutdown. But the estimates published then serve as a useful proxy for what would happen in the event of a shutdown after Friday. The following table summarizes employees at the agencies within DHS that accounted for the great majority of employees in advance of the 2013 shutdown, and shows the number expected to be furloughed and the number expected to be exempt at that time.
As the table shows, USCIS accounted for 5.7% of employees in 2013, but just 1.1% of furloughs. As we noted above, USCIS doesn't rely on the annual appropriations process. Presumably its exempt workers would get paid, but we're not entirely clear on that. In the event of a shutdown, the operations of USCIS would for the most part continue. However, that may be a moot point for the President's immigration policies unless a higher court reverses the stay imposed by the court in Texas.
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Wow, I read the headline and it moved. It moved Jerry.
Sad to say it will come back online.
pods
I love gridlock.
And don't let the door hit you on the way out either.
I dont know why but I honestly would feel a lot safer with the DHS shutdown. Maybe even more so if the NSA was shut down too.
Oh goody. Now I can drive across state lines with $400 cash and not be questioned in the land o' free!
Maybe if they just stop paying them long enough, all these govt employees will just quit and get other jobs.
I'm pretty sure this bunch would be the first to go on the dole.
Maybe someone here knows.
Congress sets the budget.
They want to defund the immigration order.
The media claims a lack of funding will shut down security.
WHO allocates the funds.
Obviously NOT the GOP, or the only thing affected would be immigration.
I thought Republicans were supposed to be against fascism?
The Republicans and Democrats are just the left and right sleeves to the same coat. It is the beast that actually wears the coat that concerns me.
I am going to open a taco stand at the border. Winning!
It is now after 5:00pm everywhere in the continental U.S. Except for "essential" employees, the federal government is shut down for the weekend. Shut down all weekend until 9:00am Monday morning.
Please commence with running in circles screaming, and having spastic panic attacks, now.
"EEEEsential" personnel of the US Forest Circus will be on high alert, staffing such critical posts as National Parks, Monuments, and other wide open spaces making sure no trespassers (who paid for the wide open spaces) have any unauthorized fun.
Anyone add much here? "DHS' over 130,000 employees" ...let's see, almost 60k for border patrol, almost 60k for groping granny, almost 50k for the Coast Guard, another 20k for Immigration, another 35k for totally useless fucks who collect a paycheck to pump up their manager's self esteem.. Looks more like DHS' over 225.000 employees once called on their bullshit. Anyone care to bet me with their pipeline to replace turnover back into the private sector they amount to a cool quarter mil? And the fuckin BEA counts this for both GDP and employment???
all for show, they have their access to the digital adding to budget machine. In a pinch, they can get physical dollars sent from north korea printing presses ! what ? !
"Maybe if they just stop paying them long enough, all these govt employees will just quit and get other jobs."
what jobs?
dupe
Dude... is homeland security shuts down...
that mean....
that all... yes.... all the tourist attractions in America...
all over America...
will be closed....
tourist have a hard tile these days... bei g a tourist and all.....
I think they made a typo when they wrote down the mandate of homeland security.... protecting the country from foreign and domestic... tourists...
"Let freedom ring!"
Think of the children!*
*and how much better off they'd be not growing up in a police state.
Does this mean the fat bitch with a hint of a mustache , and /or, the skinny limp wrist that talks with a lisp and has "8 inches or less" tattooed on his arm will no longer massage my huevos at the air port?
Shit - that stuff is like a cheap 10 dollar tug job at my fav strip mall's Asian Spa - only free!
I'm gonna miss those guys.
Look at it this way, better to be fired fodder to feed the angry mob when things get nasty.
Bye Bye TSA (_|_)!
... I know ihave 10 dollars somewhere around here .... shit - where'd I put it? Kim is waiting for me!
It might not be so bad:
1, No FEMA... so instead of having the federal gov steal - I MEAN TAKE TAX money from the states and give a little back to fund emergency services, the states could just spend THEIR OWN funds.
2. Instead of paying CBP for doing next to nothing, we could pay them NOTHING for doing nothing!
3, No Secret Service. Hmmmm....no comment.
4. No ICE? One less freebie for illegals. Sounds good.
5. No TSA? Awwwww!
So what's not like about that?
Buh...buh....but....dontcha know that without Border Patrol and ICE, the country will be overrun in days with terrrists and drug runners?
"Dude... is homeland security shuts down...that mean....that all... yes.... all the tourist attractions in America..will be closed...."
You can still see the Greatest Show on Earth; the circus the idiots have elected in DC.
America yawned in a commercial break, stretched full length, let out a small involutary fart, then changed the channel while the blood rushed back into their neck and head. No one even cared that the DHS was defunct, 99.9% of people didn't even know, and would never know. Would not realise that their security had hung by a slim thread on that day, and for all of the days which followed.
And yet ... nothing happened ... not a damned sausage!
But yet....a crisis is too good to waste, especially one made for a purpose.
All we lack is a drug crazed right wing extremist blowing up LGBT culture studies group. Freedom and what ever is left of the conservative movement will be dead forever.
Yup, that would probably do it too. In Oz the lefties and public media are in total frenzy to talk-up getting rid of Abbot and conservative govt before the end of year's Paris greenie global warming bullshit festival. They need to get rid of Abbot and Harper because they and the frozen Hudson river are gonna piss all over the parade they've planned. So I'm expecting every sort of action and stunt aimed at marginalizing conservationism in the west as 2015 humanity moves FORWARD! All so Obama can stand tall as Savior of the planet, and give a rousing BS speech.
Its a setup, get ready for the scripted false flag. Maybe the cyber one the ol dyke Janet warned us about
Um, would that be Janet Yellen, or Janet Reno?
Chauncey, where you been?
Magoo is obviously referring to Janet Reno’s daughter, Janet ‘The Bull’ Napolitano, who at this very time is in her home gym sporting a jock strap pumping iron.
BTW-Just because Janet Reno (while Florida Attorney General) was found by the cops drugged up in the back seat of a car vomiting all over some young girl she checked out of the local juvenile hall doesn’t mean she isn’t a good parent.
Jeopardy Round 2 is just starting - they can't shut down th gubbermint now!
Block off the roads near The Whateveritiswherethepresidentsarecarved and that'll show the people. Panick you fuckers.
Nobody to monitor the volcanoes at Yosemite.
No changing of the shift at the Mexicanio Deluxe Car Wash in Beverley Hills!
Just think 0f all the cute Mexican Undocumented Immigrant Wetbacks gonna make Partner at Goldman and become our brain surgeons overnight.
They'll take over the Air Force.
We're fucked.
If we really wanna stop this shit, just convince the Chinese that any DHS employees gonads are aphrodisiacs and they'll all be eaten within a decade.
that or they make great crap for pinatas
Not to mention the inevitable theft of our bodily fluids.
POE. Purity of Essence.
Sometimes, it takes an outsider from say, Belgium, to see the treez in the forest!
If the whole government shut down I would sleep better at night.
Evidently House Dems are committed to shut down the government.
Truly a blow to our safety. Be afraid and close all donut shops for mourning
Good... now can we disband it/ them altogether?
we are saving millions by the minute.
Since when is a shutdown 85% of the moochers staying on the payroll, still being paid? And the ones who are sent home will later get paid for the time that they were not at work - without having to use their vacation time.
They'll buy their own jack-boots if they have too.
That's how devoted these cronies are.
These colors don't run! 'Merika!
We feel richer already!!!
Wealth effect Bitchezzz!!!
Anyone see this story where they mentioned thermite and airplanes and government in the same article?
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/25/tsa-issues-secret-warning-...
There IS a God !!!
+100 Horray! Now shutdown the other 535 bosses
davidalan1
There isn’t a god. Also, your believe is immaterial.
The problem is that demographics grow exponential. The real economy cannot provide all the necessary jobs.
The problem will exacerbate at the next financial meltdown (great depression) because the money spent into existence can never be produced.
Followed by shortages of energy and resources that will lead to a societal breakdown, because prices will become unaffordable to most.
Thanks dad,
" OnlyThe fool says in his heart, there is no God, the are corrupt and their deeds are vile"....Psalm 14:1
You’re welcome.
“Only the fool says in his heart, there is a God, they are delusional and their deeds are nonsense"....Sacred Book of Bullshit 66:6
And why doesnt it surprise me that you are a student of the "BOOK OF BOOOSHEEIIT"?
"There are no athiests in a fox hole" - experienced
Escrava, you crypto-pompous, useless, 3rd world, conjugate mangling, michael-jackson-loving freak, will you PLEASE just fuck off??
How do you know "there isn't a God?"
Nobody knows that.
But who will fondle my genitals and keep them safe from ISIS?!?!?!
I hear El Presidente like to fondle genitals. Mayb you, Zero, and Reggie can all hook up for a threesome. They'll keep you safe.
Sounds like a black-op that should also have its funding removed.
lol
You are now the master of your own domain.
Cue the false flag!
How convenient on todays talk radio it was reported Feb. 28th is a planned eruption of cell groups in the U.S. (Michael Savage)
How would that Zionist POS know? He must have inside information with his membership in the Tribe.
probably - theatre of the absurd .. DHS head calls CIA head... "Hey, uh,... we're having a funding issue.."
240,000 people???? WTF??? half the country's working for homeland security and they can't secure the border (not allowed to i know)
False flag terrist event in 3, 2, 1...
Fake people on TV 24/7 begging for moar "Security".
The controlled demolition I wanna see is the complete dismantling of DHS.
Pull it!
Would you like thermite with your order?
or just regular explosives?
You fucking bet ya. Read my mind.... This may not be good for you when we are on the same page.
Fake peeples and Brian Williams.
"ICE will miss out on hundreds of millions of dollars intended to address 'unaccompanied minors' and families still crossing the Southwest border illegally."
is this a joke? they don't "address" anything. in particular, ICE SVU literally poaches jobs that are designed for the ATF and FBI, which have nothing to do with immigrants.
I'm sure if it does shut down we will get a false flag to prove their worth. Of course they haven't been successful in stopping any of the other false flags over the past few years.
Subsumed by DoD.
Wanna Military Dictatorship?
Here comes the military part.
Que the renewed 'Terror" ISIS/Al Shaabad' warning to slaughter dozens of over weight scooter riders at Mall Of Amerika - THIS WEEKEND!
Also - 'oh sorry' we've cancelled all your flights since you won't fork over the billions - Jedha Jones Jonshon.
That's why the other ones are in the heroin , drug trade, so they don't have funding issues. Better get one of those19$ a month charity scams going. And a friendly banker
Why do I feel like this was engineered just in time to do a big drug smuggle or more nefarious deeds?
;Umm, it's just a garden tractor... :>D
Hahahah FucK!!!! One of the sidebar ads is to apply to the border patrol!!!!! I cant stop laughing.....
Shut the entirety of FEDGOV down and I will have the best weekend of my entire life.
Wanna see how the military secures a border?
Make Putin look like a pansy.
What a queer reply. Disabled huh?
What a queer reply. Disabled huh?
Indeed! Disabled-HEAD.We are truly witnessing the Theater of the Absurd. They don't get their funding from Congress. Same as it ever was.
Yawn. Like we haven't seen this movie already.........
HELL YEAH! Party tonight without any DHS to stop the fun!
Time to buy ALL THE AMMO!! If we ZH'ers just go out and buy, like, 200,000 rounds apiece, I bet we could equal what DoHS will have sitting on the sidelines! Time to even the odds! In other news, pray real real hard that we don't have to have a remembrance ceremony for some of our own soon. A major USSA FF is on the way. We need to remember why we need them.
Maybe ISIS will come and steal all those billions of hollow point rounds.
Devourers Horse Shit.
Ahhhh, the ole weekend trick. It will funded.
Boener, do the country a favor and Kill Yourself! What a worthless piece of shit!!!
You forgot McConnel and the entire Democratic party.
What difference does it make?
All politicians are no fucking good. To play what the game has become...you have to be a SCUM.
The Purge. Anarchy. Reality TV Show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOaBsHLBn1E
this move will cost extra in the end. there will be moar.
It's an "Essential" part of government. Everybody will get paid. Nothing is going to be shut down.
So it'll be just like normal then.
Start writing the article.
ISIS terrorists with Ebola symptoms overrun US border towns.
They call me the '
" Monopoly Guy"
We de-funded some folks...
With friends like Boehner who needs enemies? If you can't hold your drink stay off of the tanning bed.
The only reason DHS is shuting down tonight because it is a weekend. Please stop the phony narritive.
OOOhhh nnnooooosssssss we're all gonna die.
Gimme a break already.
Well, this just answered the question about how they would allow the next 9/11 to happen.
I had 2 gold coins stolen by Affirmative Action hires of the TSA when I came thru an airport in NYC. Fuck all those bastards!
That sucks, bro. The times have changed, and the tyranny and outright corruption have only grown progressively worse.
I was flying out of Spokane about twelve years ago with five rolls of uncirculated silver eagles in my carry-on luggage. Some young TSA punk tried to sieze them from me until it became clear to both him and a supervisor that I was willing to miss my flight and go home unless they let me board with the eagles in my carry-on.
Fucking thieves, all of them.
You know they melted it down into teeth, too.
On what grounds did they want to prevent you from carrying on the Eagles?
You got his name,.looked it up as to where he lives and killed his cat, right?
Next time wrap real gold coin in chocolate. Place fake gold colored foil on top. Good to go. Those half assed mutts won't know diff.
Cut the federal government by 70% permanently. All agencies.
Fuck that. 90%.
It is about time......Someone grew a set of balls in record time.....
This is all just theatrics. Nothing will change, and the government will just keep on getting bigger and taking more Rights.
Well, DHS is a third tit, iddentit.
The DHS/patriot act is the worst thing to ever happen to America. Long live the constitution, and fuck the anti constitutional federal beast.
For me it has to be the Federal Reserve act, followed closely by the income tax (16th Amendment).
But with the shutdown who will ensure nobody brings snow globes larger than a tennis ball or shampoo bottles in excess of 3.5 ounces on our flight?
perfect crisis, err umm, opportunity for a black flag event.
Don't stop at shutting down the DHS, shut down the whole NWO and lets all feel safe again. Arrest Lloyd Blankfein.
well then, Die Ministrie uf Faderland Sekurity had better get on the ball, and create some kind of False Flag incident, and QUICKLY, if they want to keep the funding going...
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/vandalism-in-arizona-shut-down-i...
Boehner f*cked over a bunch of Republicans with committee assignments after they opposed his re-election as Speaker. Wonder if this is their payback, or if the nay voters are the small band of real Patriots, or if they are just Democrats in Republican clothing.
Queue false flag..
The R's will blink, just like they always do.
Move along, just some theater.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGXU7268Z50
Oh fook off with all the bull shit! the world would/will be a better place without the state aka bankers bitches! fook you all you box ticking Judas state whores!
Coast Guard buddies of mine are complaining about not getting gas money to motor around. I swear the disconnect between makers facing daily performance-based layoffs and secure, babied takers with government paychecks has never been greater. Let DHS eat it, I wouldn't employee 90% of them in a shopping mall managerial role let alone give them a rifle and badge.
Time to call up the citizen militia and teach Americans what civic duty is about. Defend your own ass and your own community. Send the DHS'ers back to the Obama free shit army where they came from.
Obviously DHS doesn't need government funding since there's plenty of drug money for that, but it doesn't hurt to supplement with legitimate fiat sources. This could be a good false flag opportunity this weekend, and then keep the banks closed on Monday.
ohh my
ohh dear
oh lord
who will protect us from the syrian assad
and the putin.
home lands
we need them remember when norad flew to cuba instead of new york during the 9 and 11.
we need the homely lands securities and the michael chertoff jewish groups to direct are top guns during the cuming false flag mossad attacks
His name was Francis Sawyer.
It's really unfair and even anti-semitic to put all the blame on the Mossad for 911 - There was C IA, Saudi and pakistani involvement also. Cheney, Bush and the Neocons were big players too. Yes the Mossad was a major player and orchestrated most of the logistical operations - but you just can't place the blame on them without mentioning the involvement of the others. That's why we ZH'ers get pegged with labels of being anti-semites.
mr chertoff is a friend are you suggesting he is a liar?
he told me it was aman
man oh man how can a semite bee anti semetick already : )
Homeland security is a government reaction to 9/11 which was a government action.
It hasn't stopped one American from getting killed by a foreign terrorist and mostly just focuses on what it describes as homegrown terrorists which just means anyone opposed to it, like military vets.
NSA will be busy this weekend blowing up stuff.
Well, at least they'll get time-and-a-half for working a weekend.
Shut that sucker down.
<< 500 recruits currently in training in Georgia will be sent home, wasting significant amounts of taxpayer money already invested in them and possibly losing them as recruits. >>
I hardly think any of these top notch 'recruits' would risk giving up a donothing-can't-be-fired federal job with full health care and pension.
Wow, Homeland shutdown at midnight.................what a cock tease!!!!!!!
Time for an other false flag I guess. Let me think here ... sending some weaponized Anthrax letters to congress? OK they already did that Mmmmm ...
THE DHS produces nothing. They have been getting paid for no work for a long time. Now the pay matches. I bet something will happen, another FF.
The Department of Homeland Security has been around for what, 13 or 14 years? Employs some 200,000 people and spends something like $70 billion a year of our hard earned taxpayer dollars..
Sounds pretty impressive and pretty important until realise that for some 225 years before it existed, we had no Department of Homeland Security, it employed zero people and spent zero taxpayer dollars.
I would wager that we have had more terrorist attacks since the advent of the DHS than in all of the 225 years before.
Don't fund it. Abolish it.
So...Can I have some of those 1.4 billion bullets since I bought some of them? Oh! only at 2ooo fps
Duck!
Still have the CIA...
Hasn't every shut-down ended with back-pay?
These are nothing but more paid vacations
Yet these oafs will still bitch and moan the whole time over all the horrible consequences they face
It's a good first step towards repealing the Homeland Security Act.
So, no false flag this weekend?
One more time Boener; take out your pistol, put the barrel in your mouth, and pull the trigger. So simple, even a fucking retard Congressman can do it...
I shudder at the thought of some child not getting molested returning home, or some person not having their gold and cash stolen from them without DHS boldly shaking down innocents. The horror!
Duplicate
SO the dems rescude the repubs from themselves for now. Dhs funds the coast guard, you know,the people that guard our coast.
...from harmless Cuban exiles and drug dealers. Ooooh. That's worth billions. /sarc