Programs including passport renewals and citizenship applications could be impacted if House members can’t reach an agreement on federal spending.
The U.S. government faces a shutdown unless Congress manages to overcome a budget impasse before the Sept. 30 funding deadline.
You’ve got the Constitution set up to basically engender these fights. You’ve got House and Senate differences, potentially — they’re going to create this divide. You’ve got inter-party differences, which because of the way the parties are developed and they become more polarized, they’re demanding more of their own actions to be conducted. And so people like the speaker are worried that they can’t wrangle the far right of their own party.
Some Republicans in the House are saying, “Don’t let D.C. scare you into thinking that a government shutdown is the end of the world.” I’m just reading a post from social media by a Republican named Andy Biggs, a congressperson from Arizona, who says the “.” Well, so, if you’re in Texas, how concerned should you really be about a government shutdown? What sort of effects could it have?
So there are going to be ramifications to this. And although, like we said, probably temporary, it’s a potential challenge for the Republicans that they’re trying to essentially pick fights they can’t win. They’re going to try to minimize the spending [in] government, which is something that mostly the parties both agreed to last year; they're going to try to reduce funding for spending in the military on Ukraine.
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