{"id":1073014,"date":"2021-12-01T14:43:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T19:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1073014"},"modified":"2021-12-01T14:43:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T19:43:48","slug":"republican-objections-to-bidens-vaccine-mandate-could-force-weeklong-government-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-objections-to-bidens-vaccine-mandate-could-force-weeklong-government-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Objections To Biden\u2019s Vaccine Mandate Could Force Weeklong Government Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublican-objections-to-bidens-vaccine-mandate-could-force-weeklong-government-shutdown%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1073014&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"48.661080854629\">\n<p>A handful Senate Republicans could force a weeklong government shutdown if they use procedural tactics to slow the passage of a short-term funding bill over its inclusion of money for President Joe Biden\u2019s vaccine mandate.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate had hoped to quickly take up a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/30\/senate-passes-short-term-funding-bill-lawmakers-try-avoid-government-shutdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stopgap funding bill<\/a> this week and pass it on an expedited timeline before the government runs out of funding at midnight Friday, but that would require agreement among all 100 senators to yield back procedural time. If the group of conservatives, led by Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee, object, a bill to fund the government through late January could take up to nine days to pass.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen a [funding bill] reaches the Senate Democrats are going to support it and work to pass it as quickly as possible,\u201d Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday on the Senate floor. \u201cOur Republican colleagues, meanwhile, can either work with us to move the process quickly through the chamber or they can engage in obstructive tactics that will make a government shutdown almost a certainty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSadly,\u201d Schumer added, \u201cthis second option seems to be the path that a few on the other side are choosing.\u201d&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/30\/house-passes-funding-bill-clearing-way-keep-government-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Shutdown Narrowly Averted After House Passes Short-Term Funding Bill)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7329837\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7329837\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks to reporters Tuesday. (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The multi day holdup would also not occur until the House passed a stopgap bill, and as of Wednesday afternoon text of one did not exist. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/29\/senate-republicans-block-annual-defense-bill-lack-debate-amendment-votes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Senate Republicans Block Annual Defense Bill Over Lack Of Debate, Amendment Votes)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Republicans\u2019 plans to oppose funding for vaccine mandates was not entirely new. At least 11 senators led by Kansas Republican Sen. Roger Marshall signed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.senate.gov\/press-releases\/sen-marshall-leads-effort-to-defund-the-vaccine-mandate\/\">letter<\/a> to Schumer in early November demanding that the provision be dropped from future spending bills, vowing to use \u201call means at our disposal to oppose\u201d legislation that contained it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNor will we vote for or support cloture on any continuing resolution in the absence of language protecting Americans from this action,\u201d they added. \u201cThe American people have gone through enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A handful Senate Republicans could force a weeklong government shutdown if they use procedural tactics to slow the passage of a short-term funding bill over its inclusion of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1073014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}