Pros And Cons Of Government Shutdown

On January 20, 2018, the United States government shutdown when the Extension of Continuing Appropriations Act of 2018, a bill to fund the federal government, failed to pass Congress. The reason for this was due to disagreements between Democrats and Republicans on a proposed extension to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy incorporated into the bill. In response, Democrats, those who supported the DACA extension, led a filibuster in the Senate that effectively halted any legislative progress on the bill. Despite Republicans enacting a a cloture vote, a vote to forcibly end a filibuster, it failed to garner the sixty votes necessary to end the filibuster. As a result, the government shutdown will furlough thousands of federal

The Dream Act was first introduced in 2001 and would grant citizenship to minors who came to the United States as a child. There are some stipulations that one must abide by before they are eligible for citizenship. For the past sixteen years, different drafts of the Dream Act have been introduced, however none have made it far enough to be become a law. While there is both pros and cons to the Dream Act, it is a law that should be considered.

November 14, 1995 is a day that is remembered by some as a terrible day in history. While November 19, 1995 is a day most Americans are grateful for. These are the dates the government shutdown, and the date that the shutdown concluded and the headaches were over for the citizens of America. Or so they thought. A partial government shutdown again proceeded to happen on December 16, 1995 to January 6, 1996. It is days like this that made America what it is today (E. Green).

Hello, Caitlyn. I personally believe a balanced budget amendment would be in order considering politicians refuse to stop the spending. The reason I would call for a balanced budget amendment is because of Greece. After seeing the mess Greece is in, along with a myriad of many other European countries, I believe national debt is not manageable because the government will continue to spend more than they take in taxes. The Grecian government refused to reform their entitlement programs, so they went into default. The U.S. needs to reform our spending before we head down the same path of self-destruction.

A somewhat impertinent question to the GOP: Were you lying the whole time about repealing Obamacare?

The sequestration that the Obama administration proposed would leave America with the smallest ground force it has ever seen since 1940s, the smallest number of ships since 1915, and the smallest Air Force in history. The Republican Party adamantly opposed the impending defense spending cuts, stating that they were severe and that it would be a disaster to our national security, a decline of our nation’s defense industrial base, and would result in the layoff of more than 1 million skilled workers.

President Obama, facing the second debt limit crisis in his second term urged congress along with the endorsement of Ben Bernanke of the Federal Reserve to raise the debt ceiling unconditionally, as soon as possible .On February 4th. the No Budget No Pay act was passed, which suspended the debt limit until May 18th 2013. The law also withheld pay for members of congress if a budget was not enacted by April 15th. The US government went into partial shutdown on October 1st suspending 800,000 workers until a new budget was passed. October 16, the Senate passed the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014, a continuing resolution, to fund the government until January 15, 2014, and suspending the debt ceiling until February 7, 2014, thus ending both the United States federal government shutdown of 2013 and the United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2013. The current cap is around 17.6 trillion

First, in the Lord of the Flies, the moral code that is being practiced by these children is what they have been taught their whole life. There are certain laws that people have to live by, everyone has an “assigned” job in society, and there is a leader of each group of people. The children in Lord of the Flies set up their time on the island like they would be living in a normal civilized society. Second, in The Most Dangerous Game, there is distinction of good versus evil between people. Sanger Rainsford, the good, can see that human hunting is murder. Where as General Zaroff, the bad, looks at hunting humans as fun, for when he is bored. There are people who see one thing completely fine, and there are others that say it is completely

In very simple terms, the federal government shutdown refers to a situation in which the executive is barred from spending as Congress has failed to approve funds for such spending by the scheduled time. Normally, shutdowns result from the fact that majority of the members of Congress are not convinced by the proposed budget of the executive for the succeeding fiscal year. Such a freeze on spending usually starts from non-essential services. It was under President General Ford in 1976 that the first shutdown occurred. Since then there have been about 17 other shutdowns.

A plan to cut the military budget has been made and will most likely be put into effect soon. A debt in the United States has been increasing for years so the government thinks the best way to get it to come down some is to make cuts and use the money

Growing spending and debt are undermining economic growth and may push the nation into a financial crisis in coming years. Edward then stated that the solution to these problems is to downsize every federal department by cutting the most harmful programs. This study proposes specific cuts that would reduce federal spending by almost one-quarter and balance the budget in less than a decade."

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are winding down and that will help lower the defense spending by almost $1 trillion over the next decade. The congress is realizing that they need to do some restructuring and have already begun rearranging the military budget in response to austerity. Congress conjured up a $630 billion defense appropriations bill that made plans to reduce civilian and contractor personnel by 5 percent over the next five years and in return ramp up advanced weapons programs, including drones, bombers and missiles says The Washington Post. The American Conservative

While the fear of government default is approaching, there are solutions to this problem. The first is raising the debt ceiling, this avoids default that results in government shutdown and effects state and local government by losing Medicaid, highway construction and lower tax collections (Cooper and Story). The debt ceiling allows Congress the influence over spending

With the numbers totaled the defense budget is currently sitting at a solid 3.5 percent of our GDP and there are still questions on how much more we can put in to make this country safe. The White House is calling for more money to be spent on national defense and their economists say that the United States can withstand a gross spending of somewhere around 9 to 10 percent of our GDP. The money to pay for any

"Impacts and Costs of the Government Shutdown." The White House. The White House, 7 Nov. 2013. Web. 30 July 2014. <http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/11/07/impacts-and-costs-government-shutdown>.) Some of the critical programs affected are National Institutes of Health and Environmental Protection Agency. Both programs had to be put on pause and caused a lot of damage. Despite the many problems the government shutdown caused, the Congress itself causes most of the reasons why it’s so dysfunctional. Congress members rarely like to compromise, which is why there is a lot of dispute. The lack of agreement is what causes a gridlock to occur in a legislature. “The percentage of gridlocked issues has more than doubled since 1950 and is close to a new high” (Blake, Aaron. "Gridlock in Congress? It’s probably even worse than you think." . N.p., 29 May 2014. Web. 30 July 2014. <http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/05/29/gridlock-in-congress-its-probably-even-worse-than-you-think/>.) Congress needs to be able to compromise so the amount of gridlocking occurring won’t keep