THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT ACTUALLY SHUT THE FUCK DOWN
So what the hell happened? How can the government of a country just shut down!? They run out of money, that’s how.
The Republicans and Democrats of Congress had to agree on a government funding bill before a set deadline and they failed. The main disagreement? Dreamers.
Dreamers are the children of illegal immigrants, people who came to the United States as children and were raised there and who, under the Obama Administration, were allowed to stay and be citizens. The ugly orange Cheeto man and some of his Republican compatriots want to be utter assholes and kick them out – purely because of their parents’ decision. The Democrats refuse to let that happen and so refused to cooperate and pass the funding bill since it didn’t protect the Dreamers.
The shutdown meant all non-essential staff got sent home and essential services carried on working without pay. Of course Cheeto man and his party played the blame game and said it was all Democrats’ fault. Nevermind that he previously said during the Obama administration that a government shutdown was a failure of the President.
A short term spending bill was passed three days later to end the shutdown and prolong the negotiation period. This is just further evidence of the chaos of the Drumpf Administration.
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