UPDATE: The House has passed the 2011 FY Budget with 260 Yea votes (179 R and 81 D) and 167 No votes (59 R and 108D). Here is the analysis of last Friday’s budget deal from the Republican Study Committee: Take-Away Points Spending Levels: The total non-emergency spending level for H.R. 1473 is $1.05 trillion. The bill leads to $421.9 [...]

By Frank McCaffrey – The budget battle almost lead to a shut down of our federal government. Americans for Limited Government’s Adam Bitely says Harry Reid and his buddies have done a great job causing this chaos and it was not as bad as they want it to be.

By William Warren -Even though the government shutdown was averted, I thought today’s cartoon presented a good opportunity for humor…

At about 10:30 pm Friday evening, Boehner and Reid reached an agreement to avert a government shutdown. Here is the reaction from Americans for Limited Government (ALG) President Bill Wilson, who praised House Speaker John Boehner for getting $38.5 billion in more cuts to the 2011 budget in a deal that will fund the military through the year and averts [...]

Should negotiations collapse between Speaker Boehner and Senate Democrats, the House is prepared to drop a bill which would keep the military funded in the event of a government shutdown. Per Dave Weigel at Slate: Because the Senate won’t pass the House’s one-week continuing resolution, which cuts $12 billion of spending and funds the Defense Department, it’s still uncertain whether [...]

Discussions are continuing behind closed doors on Capitol Hill, but at this point, it appears that no deal will be reached before midnight tonight. The latest from Speaker Boehner is this: “We just met with all of our Members to try to bring them as up to speed as we can, considering that we’re still in discussions.  And I might [...]

Fellow NRD contributor Rick Manning created a “Top 10″ list of reasons that Harry Reid wants a “shutdown” over at The Hill’s Pundits Blog. Here are his top 10: Top 10 Reasons Why Harry Reid Wants a Federal Government Shutdown (with apologies to a certain over-the-hill late-night talk-show host) 10: President Obama doesn’ t have time to campaign, vacation, golf [...]

House Speaker John Boehner blamed Democrats’ unwillingness to cut spending for the impending “shutdown” of government. If the Senate fails to take action on the troop funding measure that sits before them today, the government will shut down at midnight tonight. Speaker Boehner spoke earlier today on the matter: “There’s only one reason that we do not have an agreement [...]

Courtesy of Mark Tapscott at the Washington Examiner, here is a brief timeline of how we have arrived at the impending shutdown: Here’s what’s happened in the intervening months, according to Don Seymour, a senior aide to Boehner: · April 15, 2010 – The Democrat-run Congress misses the deadline under the Congressional Budget Act to complete action on a FY11 [...]

Earlier this week, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) spoke on this website about the failed leadership from the White House. Now, Hatch is going after the Senate Democrats as well for refusing to pay the military in the event of a government shutdown. Hatch said the following late yesterday about the Democrats refusing to fund the military: “Because the Democrats in [...]