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SBA message is somehow worse... https://sba.gov https://sba.gov

by l2p 1y ago

culi 1y ago
> Senate Democrats voted to block a clean federal funding bill (H.R. 5371), leading to a government shutdown that is preventing the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) from serving America’s 36 million small businesses. > Every day that Senate Democrats continue to oppose a clean funding bill, they are stopping an estimated 320 small businesses from accessing $170 million in SBA-guaranteed funding. > As a result of the shutdown, we wanted to notify you that many of our services supporting small businesses are currently unavailable. The agency is executing its Lapse Plan and as soon as the shutdown is over, we are prepared to immediately return to the record-breaking services we were providing under the leadership of the Trump Administration. > If you need disaster assistance, please visit sba.gov/disaster.
- johnnyanmac 1y ago
  Just to add some context to this "clean federal funding": a "clean bill" here means "let things expire". Democrats are fighting for a continuing resolution which extends whatever is about to expire. In this case, the ACA subsidies would expire if a clean funding bill is passed.
  - xp84 1y ago
    The Democrats already lost the battle on those things (cuts to Medicaid + no extension of Obamacare subsidies) and they were already going to happen because Democrats didn’t (and don’t) have the votes to renew them because they can’t win elections. Now they’re using this opportunity to try to get those things back at gunpoint. It’s not propaganda that the Republicans have offered a CR which changes nothing additional. Once again, Democrats expect to enact their own policy goals with 47 Senate seats and find it doesn’t go so well. Maybe some decade they will go back to trying to convince voters to vote for them instead of just ridiculing everyone outside their echo chamber. (I’m not a democrat or a republican, I’m not rooting for either one.)
    - Sabinus 1y ago
      Forget Medicaid expansions expiring, the Democrat ultimatum should be around Trump's crypto bribes and seizing the power of the purse from Congress.
    - foogazi 1y ago
      > Democrats didn’t (and don’t) have the votes to renew them because they can’t win elections. They win once and all of a sudden they feel they are the new kings
      - johnnyanmac 1y ago
        After this all blows over, I never want to hear a 1A nor 2A argument from anyone who voted for this ever again. Nor anything about balancing the budget It's clear that they love to be treaded on and welcome it on a red carpet.
    - johnnyanmac 1y ago
      >’m not a democrat or a republican, I’m not rooting for either one You clear are of you're rooting for your own Healthcare premiums to go up. This really isn't a left or right issue. Heck, this proportionately hurts red states more. Must be so tiring in office to try and defend people who actively wish for your destruction.
      - dns_snek 1y ago
        > This really isn't a left or right issue. That's precisely what this is, views on welfare are one of the most fundamental ideological differences between "the left" and "the right". What's messed up is that people who need social welfare and subsidies the most end up voting for conservatism and austerity, so everyone ends up twisting the definitions of "the left" and "the right" to rationalize their own choices.
        johnnyanmac 1y ago
        It's really not, it's a uniquely American problem. You don't have the far right in the UK nor Japan nor India try to argue about increasing Healthcare premiums. It's as foreign idea to them as national id's are for the US. But yes, I completely agree with your comment otherwise.
joshstrange 1y ago
HUD is pretty bad too: https://www.hud.gov/ https://www.hud.gov/ > The Radical Left in Congress shut down the government. HUD will use available resources to help Americans in need. Just disgusting.

SBA message is somehow worse... https://sba.gov https://sba.gov

by l2p 1y ago

SBA message is somehow worse... https://sba.gov https://sba.gov

culi 1y ago

> Senate Democrats voted to block a clean federal funding bill (H.R. 5371), leading to a government shutdown that is preventing the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) from serving America’s 36 million small businesses. > Every day that Senate Democrats continue to oppose a clean funding bill, they are stopping an estimated 320 small businesses from accessing $170 million in SBA-guaranteed funding. > As a result of the shutdown, we wanted to notify you that many of our services supporting small businesses are currently unavailable. The agency is executing its Lapse Plan and as soon as the shutdown is over, we are prepared to immediately return to the record-breaking services we were providing under the leadership of the Trump Administration. > If you need disaster assistance, please visit sba.gov/disaster.

johnnyanmac 1y ago
Just to add some context to this "clean federal funding": a "clean bill" here means "let things expire". Democrats are fighting for a continuing resolution which extends whatever is about to expire. In this case, the ACA subsidies would expire if a clean funding bill is passed.
- xp84 1y ago
  The Democrats already lost the battle on those things (cuts to Medicaid + no extension of Obamacare subsidies) and they were already going to happen because Democrats didn’t (and don’t) have the votes to renew them because they can’t win elections. Now they’re using this opportunity to try to get those things back at gunpoint. It’s not propaganda that the Republicans have offered a CR which changes nothing additional. Once again, Democrats expect to enact their own policy goals with 47 Senate seats and find it doesn’t go so well. Maybe some decade they will go back to trying to convince voters to vote for them instead of just ridiculing everyone outside their echo chamber. (I’m not a democrat or a republican, I’m not rooting for either one.)
  - Sabinus 1y ago
    Forget Medicaid expansions expiring, the Democrat ultimatum should be around Trump's crypto bribes and seizing the power of the purse from Congress.
  - foogazi 1y ago
    > Democrats didn’t (and don’t) have the votes to renew them because they can’t win elections. They win once and all of a sudden they feel they are the new kings
    - johnnyanmac 1y ago
      After this all blows over, I never want to hear a 1A nor 2A argument from anyone who voted for this ever again. Nor anything about balancing the budget It's clear that they love to be treaded on and welcome it on a red carpet.
  - johnnyanmac 1y ago
    >’m not a democrat or a republican, I’m not rooting for either one You clear are of you're rooting for your own Healthcare premiums to go up. This really isn't a left or right issue. Heck, this proportionately hurts red states more. Must be so tiring in office to try and defend people who actively wish for your destruction.
    - dns_snek 1y ago
      > This really isn't a left or right issue. That's precisely what this is, views on welfare are one of the most fundamental ideological differences between "the left" and "the right". What's messed up is that people who need social welfare and subsidies the most end up voting for conservatism and austerity, so everyone ends up twisting the definitions of "the left" and "the right" to rationalize their own choices.
      - johnnyanmac 1y ago
        It's really not, it's a uniquely American problem. You don't have the far right in the UK nor Japan nor India try to argue about increasing Healthcare premiums. It's as foreign idea to them as national id's are for the US. But yes, I completely agree with your comment otherwise.

joshstrange 1y ago

HUD is pretty bad too: https://www.hud.gov/ https://www.hud.gov/ > The Radical Left in Congress shut down the government. HUD will use available resources to help Americans in need. Just disgusting.