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Government to shut down after midnight barring last minute breakthrough
- katcher 1y agoWhy does the post title omit the name of the country that's shutting down?
- potato3732842 1y agoMore clicks. SOP editor behavior in 2020-whatever. Gotta get those sweet sweet eyeball on ad bucks. (The country is the US btw)
- showsover 1y ago[flagged]
- estimator7292 1y agoGovernment shutting down?! You'll NEVER belive who! Click NOW to find out!
- RandomBacon 1y agoNPR is in the U.S. and Hacker News has a policy of not editorializing titles.
- chipheat 1y agoTo explicitly state for others, the country in question is the United States.
- amenhotep 1y agoIs there any other country it could be referring to?
- jdlshore 1y agoTrump’s MO seems to be to intimidate and threaten, and his threat to fire workers rather than furloughing them is in line with that. So is his threat to affect WIC first. Given this tendency, it seems like this shutdown could be worse and longer than past shutdowns. Combined with the AI bubble, tariffs, and poor job numbers, I wonder if this could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.
- centiar 1y agoI avoid readig news due to the obvious bias that has seemingly infected all publications. However, tried Kagi News today and here is the summary of the shutdown: "Republicans are pressing a clean stopgap bill to fund agencies through November 21, while Democrats insist on extending health-care subsidies and reversing recent Medicaid cuts in any deal." https://kite.kagi.com/ecc8e0de-f9d3-421c-99cb-9b165e14e9c6/world/0 https://kite.kagi.com/ecc8e0de-f9d3-421c-99cb-9b165e14e9c6/w...
- jgoewert 1y agoDang. I guess kagi is about as useful as a cuecat with a synopsis like that.
- AnimalMuppet 1y agoWhat good is a clean spending bill if the president is going to use recission? So, under current circumstances, why should it matter to the Democrats that it's a clean bill?
- centiar 1y ago[dead]
- cosmicgadget 1y agoWhat obvious bias?
- centiar 1y ago[dead]
- mint5 1y agoWell that summary is curiously ignoring the glaring elephant in the room - selective context is useful for propaganda I suppose - a clean resolution is an utterly meaningless concept in the context of an administration that is already arbitrarily revoking funding to anything they dislike.
- cosmicgadget 1y ago> "We can do things during the shutdown that are irreversible, that are bad for them," Trump said. "We can cut large numbers of people. We don't want to do that, but we don't want fraud, waste and abuse." "Nice civil service you got here. Be a shame if something happened to it."