{"id":1077109,"date":"2021-12-02T15:28:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T20:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1077109"},"modified":"2021-12-02T15:28:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T20:28:46","slug":"biden-says-he-talked-to-mcconnell-doesnt-expect-government-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-says-he-talked-to-mcconnell-doesnt-expect-government-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Says He Talked To McConnell, Doesn\u2019t Expect 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\">20<\/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%2Fbiden-says-he-talked-to-mcconnell-doesnt-expect-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=1077109&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--><div><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">President Joe Biden says he has spoken with Senate leaders Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell and does not expect the government to shutdown Friday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Biden made the statement to reporters following a Thursday speech detailing his administration\u2019s ongoing response to COVID-19. There has been concern over a potential shutdown since Congress punted negotiations on a budget deal back in November.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"13.157894736842\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Departing NIH, Biden tells reporters he spoke to GOP Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and doesn\u2019t believe there will be a government shutdown tomorrow, \u201cunless somebody decides to be totally erratic, and I don\u2019t think that will happen.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1v3flLukp1\">pic.twitter.com\/1v3flLukp1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DJ Judd (@DJJudd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DJJudd\/status\/1466486591799631873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The House of Representatives <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/02\/rosa-delauro-house-appropriations-congress-deal-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">came to an agreement<\/a> on a budget deal Thursday morning, but some Republicans in the Senate have threatened to block the bill using procedural tactics due to Biden\u2019s efforts to mandate vaccines. Nevertheless, Biden\u2019s conversations with McConnell and Schumer left him confident the agreement would make it through the Senate. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/30\/house-passes-funding-bill-clearing-way-keep-government-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Stopgap Funding Bill Clears Congress, Avoiding Shutdown With Hours To Spare)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, I don\u2019t believe that will happen,\u201d Biden said in response to a question on the shutdown. \u201cWe have everything in place to be able to make sure there\u2019s not a shutdown, unless some individual\u2026decides to be totally erratic, and I don\u2019t that will happen, so I don\u2019t think there will be a shutdown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McConnell himself <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VbRSU6jf4Ms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">went on Fox News<\/a> on Thursday morning to say a government shutdown \u201cmakes no sense for anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think shutting down the government over this issue is going to get an outcome,\u201d McConnell said. \u201cIt will only create chaos and uncertainty, so I don\u2019t think that\u2019s the best vehicle to get this job done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A small group of Republicans vowed to oppose any stopgap funding measure that included funding for enforcement of Biden\u2019s recently announced COVID-19 vaccine mandate. More than a dozen Republicans signed a letter demanding the removal of funding for the mandate in early November, including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden is waging a cruel campaign to punish unvaccinated Americans\u2014depriving them of their ability to provide for their families. This is nothing short of immoral,\u201d the letter read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden says he has spoken with Senate leaders Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell and does not expect the government to shutdown Friday.Biden made the statement to reporters following &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"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-1077109","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\/1077109","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\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077109\/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=1077109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}