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| Dianne Feinstein flips her position on shutdown for second time in one day: 'People will die' |
| 2018-01-19 |
| Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., cautioned Thursday that "people die, accidents happen" when the government shuts down, as it is poised to partially shut down Friday night if Congress doesn’t pass a government spending bill. It was her second shift in position on the bill in just one day. "Shutting down the government is a very serious thing. People die, accidents happen," Feinstein told CNN. "You don’t know. Necessary functions can cease. There is no specific list you can look at and make a judgment: ’Well everything is going to be just fine.’ You can’t make that judgment. So, I think it’s a last resort. And I’m really hopeful we don’t get to it." Feinstein told CNN she hadn’t yet decided whether she will vote for the short-term spending bill unveiled by congressional Republicans earlier this week. The stopgap measure funds the government until Feb. 16 and reauthorizes the Children’s Health Insurance Program for six years. "I don’t know how I would vote right now on a CR, OK?" the California Democrat said. But Feinstein’s uncertainty about whether she’ll back the legislation stands in contrast to a statement her office issued earlier Thursday stating Feinstein is opposed to the bill. "I said in December that I wouldn’t vote for a CR without the Dream Act, and I won’t do so now," she said in a statement. That itself was a change from how Feinstein sounded on Wednesday, when she said she would vote for a continuing resolution if it was necessary. The government spending bill from Republican leadership does not include a measure to address Dreamers, as Senate Democrats had pushed for it to. Democrats have signaled they have enough votes to block the short-term spending bill from passing, making the possibility of partial government shutdown more likely. |
| Posted by:Anomalous Sources |
| #7 Tutto nello Stato, niente al di fuori dello Stato, nulla contro lo Stato (“Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State”) Feinstein just doesn't have the moral courage to be honest in public. |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-01-19 11:40 |
| #6 'People will die' Dead people vote for Democrats all the time, so what's the big deal? |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-01-19 11:32 |
| #5 'People will die' As long as it is the donk government fucktards, I can live with that and support this shutdown. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2018-01-19 11:27 |
| #4 'People will die' Since when does a senator care? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-01-19 10:04 |
| #3 It's she confused about where responsibility for the shutdown lies? |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-01-19 08:20 |
| #2 It is the Statist view that government is the end all and be all of all civilization. Afterall, Senators like her bathed in her wealth and ignorance knew no other way to make it to the "top". That is how a poor couple from Arkansas can come damn near of ruling the world and make a bondsmen fortune on it. Like Millions and Millions. How does the Bush Family exist without seized Panama drug money? At least they were ripping off drug dealers instead of Hatians - and that was Racist. |
| Posted by: newc 2018-01-19 03:46 |
| #1 'People will die' The tax bill was supposed to do that, but there have been curiously few reports of bodies piled up in the streets. Our current crop of self-described "elites" seem to be incapable of anything but hyperbolic raving. |
| Posted by: PBMcL 2018-01-19 01:01 |