The worries of another government shutdown happening tomorrow night are over, for now.
With both the House and Senate passing a measure that the President says he will sign, it won’t happen now.
But it is likely to happen again down the road. But what has happened now, ends a third time this year that Congress came to the brink of a shutdown and defaulting on its mega trillion dollar debt that would have delayed paychecks to millions of federal employees and cut off payments to millions of Americans.
And all of this comes at a time when Americans are watching a Congress that does more fighting than doing.
In fact this week, we came very close to seeing a real fight, between a member of the Senate and a witness testifying at a Senate hearing.
And we saw the former House Speaker elbow a colleague.
And we saw a battle over impeaching the Department of Homeland Security and the start of a bitter investigation into the Biden family.
And every week we watch politicians on both sides take verbal swipes politicians on the other side, in sometimes harsh and nasty fashions.
All of this probably makes a lot of Americans ask a question that you hear asked more and more by a lot of Americans. Why can’t Congress do more to help them instead of spending most of their time bickering?
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