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If this were to continue for several months, I would assume that most of the employees would quit those departments, which would probably be catastrophic, both

• adventured 8y ago
  It's not going to continue past the end of January under any scenario. Trump will go with a national emergency declaration (we've had 58 of those declared just since 1979) in an attempt to fund and build the wall the military route. That will be halted due to an injunction. Then it'll end up at the Supreme Court. Assuming the Democrats don't offer a compromise to Trump that is.
  • ajross 8y ago
    That just builds a wall, it doesn't address this problem. You can't use an emergency declaration to open the government. The theory here is that once Trump has declared victory, republicans are going to be willing to pass a bill without wall funding. It's not at all clear to me that this is how it will play out.
  • mturmon 8y ago
    This could indeed be. I thought your remark that there had been so many national emergencies was interesting. This turns out to be true — color me surprised. Almost all of them seem to not involve spending money — they are prohibitions on money transfers. I assume this is where the emergency-for-wall would run into trouble, because it’s the Congress that appropriates money.
• fzeroracer 8y ago
  It would be incredibly catastrophic, considering the FDA has stopped domestic food inspections among other things.