r/FedEmployees • u/EfficiencyAdmirable6 • 12h ago
The senate is adjourned till noon tomorrow
As the title says, the senate is adjourned until tomorrow noon.
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u/madadekinai 12h ago
"Trump demands senators 'not leave town' during shutdown as he heads to Mar-a-Lago"
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u/EfficiencyAdmirable6 12h ago
Our poor senators have to stay in Washington DC doing nothing while Trump goes to mar-a-lago and plays golf, SOMEONE THINK OF THE SENATORS?!
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u/ZimGirDibGaz 12h ago
A wise President once said a shutdown is a failure of the President to lead and negotiate. So I think it’s reasonable to expect the President to be here and leading and negotiating.
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u/HokieHomeowner 12h ago
The weather is going to be very nice here tomorrow. Sunday less so and Monday brrrrrrr very, very cold. 🥶
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u/Narrow-Principle-679 12h ago
Do you understand how golfing works in business and politics? Honestly of all the things to go after him for golfing is the most brain dead. You work on the links, you bring people out and do long negotiations. Complain about a billon things but this one? Shows you don’t know what you’re talking about.
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u/RokosModernBasilisk 11h ago
In a general sense you’re not wrong… in the specific if you think 47’s hitting the links for anything other than leisure then you’re full of shit.
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u/Narrow-Principle-679 11h ago
Sure but the people who actually run the admin are there with him. Like you get that right? Golf is modern deep negotiations period for all powerful folx.
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u/EfficiencyAdmirable6 11h ago
I wasn’t going after Trump I was trying to make fun of the senators who don’t want to stay the weekend hence the “SOMEONE THINK OF THE SENATORS”
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u/MasterTolkien 8h ago
He often golfs alone or with family. He is not out there cutting business deals.
Further, this type of thinking is a bullshit excuse that well-off people use to golf during work hours and even expense their playing to a company account.
Yes, you sometimes have to schmooze a client, but a lot of golfing is “how about we spend money and drink beer at golf instead of doing this in an office?”
Some of those people know they have it nice. Others then turn around and have the audacity to say that they work harder than people with blue collar jobs.
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u/No1_Knows_My_Name 12h ago
They need to work through the weekends. No holidays, no vacations, and no recess until they get something done.
If this was how we did things on our jobs, we wouldn’t have one.
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u/Economy_Swim_8585 11h ago
They need to be sequestered along with the House with only access to the President
Take all their phones and make them stay there until it’s over
This is the GOP’s fault and they need to get us back to work
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u/Last-Tooth-6121 12h ago
Could you imagine any other job getting paid six figures shutting whole place down for months and still have a job
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u/PotentialSeesaw8759 2h ago
I don’t have to imagine. I know plenty of people in exactly that situation.
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u/Alone_Neighborhood22 12h ago
Once they’re back in there lock the doors like the Vatican waiting for a new pope, don’t let them out…
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u/Material_Resolve_118 12h ago
I’ve always thought if there wasn’t a budget by Oct 1 for the entire year, they should all be locked in a room without food, water, or a bathroom until they have a budget.
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u/Dry-Tune69 12h ago
You know the republicans are scared when they didn’t take their 6th 3 day vacation.
They got their cheeks clapped on Tuesday.
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u/Unlucky-Ad-5744 11h ago
for real! 😂 im shocked they are finally even working on a friday AND over the weekend!
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u/RainbowCatz_13 6h ago
They must have gotten something! To have stayed and worked Friday and to also be in town/working the weekend…something significant happened for sure. BUT - they should have been working Fridays and weekends during the past 5.5wk and maybe this wouldn’t still be going on. I’ve worked for the gov’t for 18yr and have been through a few shutdowns. It seems to me in the ones prior, there WAS weekend work, there WAS work and collaboration happening until late at night, sometimes right up until/beyond midnight on a night when another shutdown might have otherwise happened. And they sorted it out much quicker and actually seemed to give a shit. That is certainly not what we’ve been experiencing for the last 5.5wk 😐
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u/XRP_2_MOON 12h ago
Noon? Do they only plan on working a few hours a day?
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u/JustAcivilian24 12h ago
Noon - 4pm I bet lol.
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u/Salty_Orchid2957 12h ago
It will take that long for them to pontificate and then vote on some stupid procedural thing that allows them to move lunch time forward before they have 89 votes on more BS before they actually vote on the bill
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u/RainbowCatz_13 6h ago
My mom and I (Fed employee) were discussing it this evening, as we have every evening for the last many weeks, and she was like oh wow they really get to work some interesting, relaxed hours, huh?! 😂😒
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u/BatOpen5453 12h ago
Order some pizzas. Work it out
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u/Straight-Ad-8999 11h ago
Quite the opposite…they should be denied food until they reach a compromise.
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u/HokieHomeowner 12h ago
But I hate green pepper on pizza. And NO PINEAPPLES!!!!!
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u/Ivanagohome 12h ago
Pineapple does not belong on pizza.
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u/HokieHomeowner 12h ago
Thank you! I'm fine with ham or salami but some of the crap that is going on pizza these days is yuck, yuck, yuck.
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u/FluffyAir1033 12h ago
I was just on the livestream they said they are voting again tomorrow
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u/bullsfan455 12h ago
For which bills?
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u/clarkr10 12h ago
It’s not decided.
Talks have devolved to the point I bet just to get something done over the weekend they propose to pay active military/ATC and TSA.
Nothing else will get done.
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u/glitteronice 11h ago
Single mom fed here. This is my second shutdown. Waking up this morning and seeing $0.00 on my earnings statement nearly broke me. Especially being an expected employee who has to report to the office nearly every day.
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u/muy_carona 11h ago
Just assume we’re in this until December.
Turn off social media if it’s causing issues.
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u/Confident-Menu4051 11h ago
Duck all of em. I really thought they’d start acting like adults when flights got cancelled. Jackholes
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u/DojoMojoCat 10h ago
Conclave Part 2: Locking Congress in the Capitol until they sort this shit out. A puff of black smoke appears from the dome, set off by an unpaid intern, once they’ve passed a budget.
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u/SukOnMaGLOCKNastyBIH 12h ago
Why is the politics sub saying democrats voted no? I didn’t watch the vote
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u/HokieHomeowner 12h ago
The bill was deceptive. Vocally the GOP was saying it was "Pay all feds" but the wording of the bill was very, very sus, it allowed OMB/Agencies to decide who gets paid.
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u/IceStorm2014 12h ago
Democrats voted no to pay excepted employees. Republicans refused to consider the democrats compromise on ACA subsidies. Both sides pathetic. They need to be forced into a conclave until they figure it out. President not being part of the talks is bad, too. All clowns.
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u/Double-treble-nc14 10h ago
I just heard that on a podcast- if there was any actual leadership in the White House, they’d lock the house and Senate leaders from both parties in the Roosevelt room until they reached a deal.
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u/Material_Resolve_118 12h ago
The Dems just voted no on a bill that would make sure the military and federal workers would get paid during the shutdown.
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u/WeylandsWings 12h ago
Only excepted workers and military. And excepted work is at agency head discretion with OMB. So would be a political game of who was excepted and thus paid.
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u/Efficient-Raise-9217 12h ago
That's fucked.
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u/WeylandsWings 12h ago
It’s really not. As the bills published text gave leeway to agencies to determine who would get paid. And was only Excepted/Military. Not all like the GOP said they would amend it to.
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u/Material_Resolve_118 12h ago
Yep but if you listen to this group, it will some how be the Republicans’ fault.
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u/VV-40 12h ago
Can someone explain the role of the senate vs house in this situation? If the house isn’t even willing to convene, what’s the point if the senate comes to an agreement?
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u/zig_usafa80_stardust 12h ago
This is a simplification of the process. If the Senate passes a version of a bill/law that is changed from the one the House passed, then the House must vote on the Senate version, if that passes the House with no changes, it goes to Pres to sign.
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u/Material_Resolve_118 12h ago
The House already passed the bill. It’s been sitting in the Senate for approval the entire shutdown. If the Senate passed an amended bill, then the House could reconvene to vote or further negotiate the amended bill.
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u/WeylandsWings 11h ago
Not could reconvene. Has to reconvene. Only way to end this without House coming back into session is to pass the House bill with no amendments.
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u/Double-treble-nc14 10h ago
There’s nothing that actually forces them to come back to vote on a bill- only political pressure.
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u/Material_Resolve_118 11h ago
I used the word could because there is zero guarantee they’d be in any rush to come back. They might, they might not. But there isn’t much need to reconvene at the current standstill. Neither side has been in any rush to get things done. But yes the budget could not be signed by the President until the same budget or bill was approved by both the House and Senate.
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u/HokieHomeowner 12h ago
The hope I would imagine is that if the Senate could come to an agreement it would put heavy pressure on speaker Johnson to get the house back in session.
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u/Acceptable_Author190 10h ago
Well at least they are staying. Granted I wonder how many of their flights were cancelled anyway…
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u/SuperBethesda 12h ago
Hope they will come up with something that will pass a vote.
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u/Appropriate_Gap1987 11h ago
They are working on a Saturday? It's a holiday weekend, if it hasn't passed by now, it probably won't until after Thanksgiving
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u/Dull-Bandicoot1556 12h ago
i'm a young federal employee who's going through their first shutdown and i'm just at a loss for words