From: Ryan Grim [mailto:ryan.grim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] ;
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2018 9:58 PM
To: miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: The stable genius shutdown
House Republicans celebrated this afternoon the passage of a one-month spending
bill that includes a six-year extension of the children’s health insurance
program. That latter part is a sign that Paul Ryan is getting clever, and
whenever he gets clever, his plan usually flops. It doesn't help Ryan that
Trump himself helped negotiate this deal.
The government runs out of spending authority Friday at midnight, and the
Senate plans to take up the House measure Friday. Republicans need 60 votes to
get it done, and they don’t have it, so...that would mean a shutdown, unless
somebody blinks.
All of this inability to govern is having real consequences. Republicans added
CHIP to the bill thinking it would get Democratic support without anything to
help Dreamers. But they left a host of other crucial health care programs out
that also expired, like CHIP, in September. (It’s January!)
The maternal-infant home-visiting program
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is cutting its rolls and can’t hire staff, community health centers are in
crisis, teaching hospitals are struggling: for no reason whatsoever, Congress
is letting things just fall apart.
(Why did they extend CHIP for the odd time-frame of six years? Because by year
six, the CBO scores CHIP as saving money, so Republicans can stuff other
goodies in the bill on the back of the program.)
So after this Paul Ryan bill fails, will Mitch McConnell put a short-term
spending bill to keep the government open for a few days on the floor? I think
he probably will.
2. Speaking of Ryan’s bill, I had a scoop this morning on it: the measure would
allow the Trump administration to secretly shift money to new intelligence
projects without informing Congress. It would be a break with 70 years of law
and tradition.
3. The Trump administration has told Puerto Rico that it is too rich to get aid
money. No, really.
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4. A new report says that Border Patrol agents, going back to at least 2012,
have been vandalizing and destroying humanitarian supplies left for people
trudging through the desert. It’s hard to wrap my head around that level of
cruelty and indifference. Story is here.
5. If you’re reading this Friday morning, part two of our investigation into
the insurance firm Aflac is now published, check it out at TheIntercept.com.
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