President Obama signed the spending bill, ending the government shutdown. Yay! (Of course, as an admitted conspiracy theorist, I think the shutdown was a big distraction, but from what?) The government has re-opened, furloughed government employees are back to work and the powers that be have managed to stall the debt default, sparing us from […]

The shutdown has ended, well, kinda! As we all know today, October 17th, is the day that the government needed to make a decision, or we’d be unable to borrow anymore funds toward our towering $16.7 trillion dollar debt. President Obama signed the spending measure (short-term bill) to put an end (for now) to the […]

Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced a bipartisan deal today to raise the debt limit through February 7th and end the two week old plus government shutdown. “The compromise we reached will provide our economy with the stability it desperately needs,” said Senator Reid. With the GOP’s […]

In order to fund the government, Congress needs to figure out what they’re doing with this spending bill. As of today, they still haven’t come up with a solution, leaving the government shutdown for a full week now. This is the first shutdown since that one 17 years ago where Monica Lewinskry single-handedly saved the […]

The government is still currently shutdown and we’re starting to feel the affects of the standoff between the Democrats and Republicans who are far too stubborn to bend on their views of funding for the government. Because of the shutdown, many government services and agencies are closed, suspended or otherwise impacted. In short, this isn’t […]