{"id":809678,"date":"2021-09-24T11:58:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T15:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=809678"},"modified":"2021-09-24T12:48:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T16:48:53","slug":"white-house-warning-agencies-of-potential-government-shutdown-psaki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-warning-agencies-of-potential-government-shutdown-psaki\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Warning Agencies of Potential Government Shutdown: Psaki"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fwhite-house-warning-agencies-of-potential-government-shutdown-psaki%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=809678&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--><p>The Biden administration on Thursday started to tell federal agencies to start preparing for a potential government shutdown at the end of the month if Congress doesn\u2019t pass a continuing resolution in time.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/press-briefings\/2021\/09\/23\/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-september-23-2021\/\">to reporters<\/a> in the White House, press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed that the&nbsp;Office of Management and Budget (OMB) started issuing statements to various agencies that they are prepared to execute a shutdown in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki said the move is \u201cconsistent with longstanding practice across many administrations for OMB to simply remind agency senior staff of the need to review and update orderly shutdown plans,\u201d adding that it \u201cis not formal guidance being given, it\u2019s just a reminder\u2014we\u2019re seven days out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the OMB expects Congress to pass a bill to keep the government funded, agency spokesman Abdullah Hasan told news outlets that \u201cin the meantime, prudent management requires that the government plan for the possibility of a lapse in funding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsistent with longstanding practice across multiple administrations, OMB is preparing for any contingency, and determinations about specific programs are being actively reviewed by agencies,\u201d Hasan said, echoing comments made by Psaki. \u201cMore importantly, there is enough time for Congress to prevent a lapse in appropriations, and we are confident they will do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Government shutdowns occur when Congress fails to pass funding legislation to finance the government, rarely lasting longer than a month. The previous government shutdown between 2018 and 2019 lasted 35 days, and before that, a shutdown lasted 16 days in 2013.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3964267\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/08\/25\/capitol-building-1200x800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy size-medium wp-image-3964267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/capitol-building-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"congress capitol building\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3964267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/capitol-building-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"congress capitol building\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> The U.S. Capitol building exterior is seen at sunset in Washington on March 8, 2021. (Sarah Silbiger\/Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<p>The Senate is expected to vote next week on a House-passed bill that will keep the government funded until early December and raise the debt ceiling. A number of Republican senators have balked at the proposal to suspend or raise the debt ceiling, arguing that Democrats will use the extra funding to pass multi-trillion-dollar spending packages.<\/p>\n<p>Analysis and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen have issued stark warnings about the debt ceiling, saying that a U.S. default would lead to widespread job losses and may trigger an economic recession. The United States could default as soon as mid-October, Yellen has warned Congress members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. has never defaulted. Not once,\u201d Yellen wrote in a recent Wall Street Journal opinion article. \u201cDoing so would likely precipitate a historic financial crisis that would compound the damage of the continuing public health emergency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But on Thursday, House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-nancy-pelosi\">Nancy Pelosi<\/a> (D-Calif.) struck an optimistic tone during a news conference and said Congress won\u2019t allow government funding to expire next week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will keep our government open by Sept. 30, which is our date, and continue the conversation about the debt ceiling, but not for long,\u201d she told reporters Thursday. \u201cWe will have a [continuing resolution] that passes both houses by Sept. 30,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The speaker added that her caucus \u201cput this bill together in a very bipartisan way and when we added the debt ceiling is when\u201d the issue became partisan. \u201cWe don\u2019t think it will really be any problem to pass the [spending] legislation,\u201d Pelosi said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\" readability=\"7\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2019\/06\/13\/Jack-Phillips.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Phillips\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"names\">\n<p>Jack Phillips<\/p>\n<p>Senior Reporter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jack Phillips is a reporter at The Epoch Times based in New York.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration on Thursday started to tell federal agencies to start preparing for a potential government shutdown at the end of the month if Congress doesn\u2019t pass a continuing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-809678","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\/809678","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809678\/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=809678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}