{"id":592529,"date":"2023-09-28T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-dc-establishment-wants-government-shutdowns\/"},"modified":"2023-09-28T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T18:30:00","slug":"the-dc-establishment-wants-government-shutdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-dc-establishment-wants-government-shutdowns\/","title":{"rendered":"#The DC establishment wants government shutdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/schumerchuck_murraypatty_092723gn01_w.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Stop me if you\u2019ve heard this one before.<\/p>\n<p>Congress is deadlocked in a spending fight as a government shutdown looms at the end of the week. But just in the nick of time, Senate leaders from both parties come together and broker a deal to prevent a shutdown: all we have to do is ignore the rules and pass a big spending bill full of their pet projects.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>This drama is so predictable that it seems like there should be a solution by now. As it turns out, there are several serious, popular, bipartisan solutions to end to this shutdown theater once and for all.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But here\u2019s the sad truth: we keep getting into these government shutdown fights because the leadership on both sides of the aisle want it this way.<\/p>\n<p>They need government shutdowns as a threat to jam through their big spending bills before the American people find out what\u2019s in them.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m going to list some of the strong, bipartisan solutions to fix this problem that have been introduced in Congress. Keep in mind that, though Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said this week that a government shutdown would be \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/senate-introduces-short-term-bill-avoid-government-shutdown-rcna117503\">a terrible outcome for the country<\/a>,\u201d and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said it\u2019s \u201ccritically important to the American people for the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/mcconnell-says-government-shutdowns-are-a-loser-for-republicans-politically\/\">government not to shut down<\/a>,\u201d none of these solutions has been brought to the Senate floor for a vote from leaders in either party.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/118th-congress\/senate-bill\/89\/text\">No Budget No Pay Act<\/a> is a bipartisan bill I wrote with Sens. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) during the longest government shutdown in history. No Budget, No Pay simply says that if Congress fails to pass our spending bills on time, we don\u2019t get a paycheck until we do.<\/p>\n<p>This solution would provide an incentive for Congress to really make a budget and stick to it: something they haven\u2019t done in decades. If this bill had been law last year, Congress would have gone 83 days without a paycheck. That would be all the motivation this place needs to finish our spending bills on time.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Earlier this month, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) authored the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kaine.senate.gov\/download\/end-shutdowns-act-of-2023\">End Shutdowns Act<\/a>, which would automatically pass a clean funding bill if Congress fails to pass our spending bills by the Oct. 1 deadline.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A similar solution is the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lankford.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/lankford_prevent_government_shutdowns_act_of_2023.pdf\">Prevent Government Shutdowns Act<\/a>, written by Sens. James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.). This bill would remove the drama of these spending fights by funding the government in two week increments if Congress misses their budget deadline. This bill would also stop Congress from considering any legislation except government funding bills until the job is done. It has broad support from Republicans, Democrats and Independents.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Dan Sullivan\u2019s (R-Alaska) Pay Our Military Act would ensure American military service members keep getting paid if the government shuts down.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>These bills have support in both the House and Senate.<\/p>\n<p>I visit every one of Indiana\u2019s 92 counties every year, and I guarantee you the American people would prefer Congress pass solutions like this instead of another one of President Biden\u2019s inflation bomb spending bills.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Every year, tons of bills hitch a ride on massive spending packages and get passed into law. Yet none of these commonsense solutions to end government shutdown drama has ever been given the same treatment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>And the reason is simple: Senate leadership from both parties likes it this way. The last-minute drama gives them leverage to get what they want: more spending and less accountability.<\/p>\n<p>We got the text of this short-term spending bill on Tuesday evening, one hour before the Senate voted to end debate on it. We spend more time debating what to name a post office.<\/p>\n<p>These spending bills are negotiated behind closed doors and sprung on senators at the last second, all by design.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>It reminds me of the 4,000 page \u201comnibus\u201d bill we received at 1 a.m. last December. That was $1.7 trillion \u2014 more than we spent on the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fas.org\/sgp\/crs\/natsec\/RS22926.pdf\">entire war in Vietnam, adjusted for inflation<\/a> \u2014 jammed through in a matter of days before anyone had time to find out what\u2019s in it.<\/p>\n<p>The American people are paying for this dysfunction every time they go to the grocery store or fill up their gas tank. President Biden\u2019s inflation crisis is giving every American a pay cut, and a lack of leadership in the Senate allowed it to h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What we really need is to grow a backbone and stop the spending bonanza, but the least we could do is end the government shutdown drama that pushes us deeper into debt multiple times a year.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Senate leadership must take a stand and put these solutions on the floor for a vote.<\/p>\n<p><em><em>Mike Braun is the junior senator from Indiana and a member of the Budget Committee.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. 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