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Any one or multiple appropriations bills that they ignored while seeing how much suffering they could inflict on the least among us, and how much craven wealth and glory they could hand to the 1%, that they could cram into the Big Barbaric Bill, SHOULD have and COULD have been passed by now. That would mean that those still outstanding wouldn't hold up the functioning of the rest.

During the Gingrich shutdown in late 1996 - early 1996, my agency's appropriation had been passed along with those under the Treasury Department and I think DOD, so we were pretty much the only ones to show up for work to face an otherwise empty building that housed various agencies from 12 different Departments.