The fiscal cliff to end all fiscal cliffs

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"Congress has 12 weeks left before all 12 appropriations bills are due, and not a single one is close to the starting — let alone the finish — line."

House Republicans have managed, however, to cut funds to Grandma's nursing home and give the rich a tax cut on their unearned income.

Coming soon: The fiscal cliff to end all fiscal cliffs

President Donald Trump and the GOP Congress will have to avert a debt default and government shutdown — and that's just for starters.

If President Donald Trump and the Republican Congress think they’ve been under pressure to produce lately, just wait a few months.

Over the next several months, Republicans will have to figure out how to cut deals with Democrats to avoid a default on the national debt and avert a government shutdown, among several other must-pass items. But the negotiations will unfold against the acrimony of the GOP’s Obamacare repeal effort and a bruising fight over tax reform, none of which are likely to inspire trust between the two sides.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/0 ... iff-238040

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. . . Over the next several months, Republicans will have to figure out how to cut deals with Democrats to avoid a default on the national debt and avert a government shutdown, among several other must-pass items . . . .

No, I dare say- they don't have to. They have demonstrated repeatedly that they do not care who they fuck over, as long as it's not somebody dangling a multi-million $ sugar tit.