Forgive me if I’m woefully misunderstanding how this all works.
If the government is shut down, and they can’t reach an agreement to open it back up, what happens?
Short term? What does it look like in the coming weeks to months if no agreement is reached?
Mid-Term? Within the next year, if things are still all shut down, what happens to things like trade, tax payments, public services?
Long-term? If, worst case scenario, the divisions between the parties with power have grown so though they can’t ever reach an agreement: what happens then? Is it an anarchist state? Do we have new coup attempts to take power? Does the US balkanize?
I’m not meaning to inject any sort of bias in my line of questions, I hope I haven’t led anyone to any specific conclusions.
It’s already shut down…
The reason it’s not shut down, is there’s no budget. The procedure for no budget (we didn’t have one last year either) is a “coninuting resolution” which basically just replays the last budget.
The issue now, is we don’t have one of those either.
So everything various agencies pay for, they don’t have money.
There’s emergency funds (notably for SNAP) but trump is refusing to use any of the various methods at his disposal, because he wants to blame Dems for the shutdown till they do everything he wants.
Long term it might be a good thing, because people are finally realizing there’s a reason for strong state governments and not handing all the power to the Fex.
The US fought an entire war over if the Fed could boss the states around, ironically the Fed at that time sided with the states who said states were more powerful than the Fed.
But in the last ~50 years the American oligarchs have gotten both our only two options to push for a strong Fed and week states. For all the same reason’s America “spreads democracy” by picking a random faction and giving them complete power:
It’s easier to control a corrupt autocracy than a democracy.
The wealthy did the same thing to Americans, that America did to wide swarths of the globe.
It’s similar to when people bitch about colonization era English, ignoring it was the wealthy being dicks and the common English were getting fucked just s hard.
It is mostly just political nonsense. When external creditors start dropping the country’s credit rating, it will bring up interest rate and massively reduce the county’s ability to function overall. Like debt at this level does not really exist per say. It is using planned inflation long term by betting on overall growth. The interest rate stability against that debt is very important.
