-Ukraine fighters are surrendering to Russia
-Trump stated he would end their war on day 1 of his presidency.
-Are we THAT close?
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https://www.axios.com/2023/09/29/government-shutdown-house-spending-bill-mccarthy
House passes first GOP spending bills in months as shutdown nears
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images.
The Republican-controlled House on Thursday passed three annual appropriations bills after a months-long standstill, but Congress is still hurtling toward a government shutdown.
Why it matters: Republicans hope that by coalescing around spending bills they can amass leverage in negotiations with the Senate that will produce the bills actually geared towards keeping the government funded.
What happened: The House passed three out of the four Republican appropriations bills voted on late Thursday night – the first such measures to pass since the August recess.
State Department and Foreign Operations: Passed 216-212, with right-wing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and centrist Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) voting with Democrats against the bill.
Defense: Passed 218-210, with centrist Reps. Jared Golden (D-Maine) and Marie Gluesenkamp Pérez (D-Wa.) voting with the GOP for the bill and right-wing Reps. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) and Ken Buck (R-Colo.) voting with Democrats against it.
Homeland Security: Passed 220-208, with Golden and Gluesenkamp Perez voting with Republicans in favor of the bill.
Agriculture and FDA: Failed 191-237, with 27 Republicans voting against it – mostly moderates who oppose language restricting abortion pill access and rural members opposed to spending cuts.
The intrigue: The House also voted 311-117 to pass a standalone, $300 million supplemental aid package to Ukraine, which also establishes a special inspector general to oversee Ukraine assistance funding.
The measure was stripped out of the defense bill to placate Greene, one of the House GOP's staunchest opponents of U.S. assistance to the Ukrainian war effort.
In a sign of growing antipathy within the GOP towards Ukraine, more than half of House Republicans voted against it, with more than twice as many Democrats as Republicans voting for it.
What's next: On Friday, the House is expected to move on to trying to pass a party-line Republican measure to temporarily extend federal funding, known as a continuing resolution.
However, enough Republicans have ruled out voting for a continuing resolution to make it seemingly impossible for one to pass along party lines.
The Senate is trying to advance a bipartisan stopgap bill, but is running into hurdles put up by its conservative members.
Given Democratic control of the Senate, any continuing resolution will have to be the product of talks between the two chambers – but that dynamic holds considerable personal risk for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).
The big picture: A continuing resolution just provides breathing room – for anywhere between a few months to a few days – as both chambers still have a considerable number of actual appropriations bills to pass.
House Republicans have passed four out of 12 appropriations bills – the three voted on Thursday, plus military construction and veterans affairs, which passed in July. The Senate hasn't passed any.
But the appropriations bills passed by the House are filled with right-wing policy riders and mostly kept spending at 2022 levels; lower than the budget caps set out in both the bipartisan debt ceiling deal and the appropriations bills marked up in the Senate.
That leaves the two sides far behind schedule and far apart from each other with little runway — or, in McCarthy's case, leeway — to reach and then pass a deal before Oct. 1.
Go deeper: McCarthy's personal peril intensifies funding fight
US government shutdown: What is it and who would be affected?
(Those not dependent on Govt funding)
Sept 28 (Reuters) - U.S. government services would be disrupted and hundreds of thousands of federal workers would be furloughed without pay if Congress fails to provide funding for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1. Workers deemed essential would remain on the job, but without pay.
Here is a guide to what would stay open and what would shut down, according to agency shutdown plans:
MILITARY
The 2 million U.S. military personnel would remain at their posts, but roughly half of the Pentagon's 800,000 civilian employees would be furloughed.
Contracts awarded before the shutdown would continue, and the Pentagon could place new orders for supplies or services needed to protect national security. Other new contracts, including renewals or extensions, would not be awarded. Payments to defense contractors such as Boeing (BA.N), Lockheed Martin (LMT.N) and RTX (RTX.N), formerly known as Raytheon, could be delayed.
The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration would continue maintaining nuclear weapons.
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LAW ENFORCEMENT
Agents at the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and other federal law enforcement agencies would remain on the job, and prison staffers would continue to work.
The Secret Service and the Coast Guard would also continue operations, and most employees would continue to work.
Most of the Federal Trade Commission's consumer-protection workers would be furloughed, as would half of its antitrust employees.
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FEDERAL COURTS
Federal courts have enough money to stay open until at least Oct. 13. Activities might be scaled back after that point. The Supreme Court would stay open as well.
Criminal prosecutions, including the two federal cases against former President Donald Trump, would continue. Most civil litigation would be postponed. The government's landmark Google antitrust lawsuit would continue.
CONGRESS
Lawmakers continue to collect paychecks, even as other federal workers do not. Staffers do not get paid, though those deemed essential would be required to work.
TRANSPORTATION
Airport security screeners and air-traffic control workers would be required to work, according to recent contingency plans, though absenteeism could be a problem. Some airports had to suspend operations during a shutdown in 2019 when traffic controllers called in sick.
Training for 1,000 new air-traffic controllers would stop, leaving the system understaffed. The Transportation Security Administration would not be able to hire new airport security screeners ahead of the busy holiday travel season.
Some major infrastructure projects could face delays as environmental reviews and permitting would be disrupted, according to the White House.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) would suspend consumer-protection activities, equipment reviews, and licensing of TV and radio stations. It would continue to distribute telecommunications subsidies and its broadband mapping effort.
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FINANCIAL REGULATION
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) would furlough roughly 90% of its 4,600 employees and suspend most activities, leaving only a skeleton staff to respond to emergencies.
Likewise, the Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) would furlough almost all of its employees and cease oversight, enforcement and regulation, according to its 2021 plan.
The Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency would continue as normal, as they are funded by industry fees rather than congressional appropriations.
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), an industry-financed brokerage oversight body, would continue to operate.
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DISASTER RESPONSE
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) would be at risk of running out of disaster-relief funds. The agency is already delaying payments to some long-term recovery projects in order to keep money on hand for more immediate relief during hurricane and wildfire season.
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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-government-shutdown-what-closes-what-stays-open-2023-09-21/
Had to remove multiple agencies as the article was too long.
Let's GOOOOOooooooooo….
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