The White House Office of Management and Budget on Thursday began its initial communications to agencies on how to prepare for a possible government shutdown, a source familiar with the plans said, as lawmakers on Capitol Hill have yet to settle on a plan to avoid a shutdown by November 17.
The communications are part of the standard procedure laying out the steps toward bringing non-essential government functions to a halt.
“One week prior to the expiration of appropriations bills, regardless of whether the enactment of appropriations appears imminent, OMB will communicate with agency senior officials to remind agencies of their responsibilities to review and update orderly shutdown plans, and will share a draft communication template to notify employees of the status of appropriations,” a budget circular document from the Office of Management and Budget states.
I wish it was that simple, but even if that latest poll from NYT that shows Trump ahead in key battleground states winds up being wrong, it at least indicates that too many people still don’t see how fucked up the GOP is. It should not be at all close, at this point.
The general public is clearly still painfully stupid and uninformed, and I hope that volunteer grassroots efforts can overcome it enough next year to avoid fascism.