Biden Closes Federal Government on Day
of Carter's Funeral
Townhall,
by
Leah Barkoukis
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
12/31/2024 9:42:52 AM
President Joe Biden signed an executive order closing the federal government on Jan. 9 "as a mark of respect" for the late President Jimmy Carter.
In his proclamation announcing the passing of the 39th president, Biden also called on the American people to pay their respects on Jan. 9, the day of Carter’s funeral. “I do further appoint January 9, 2025, as a National Day of Mourning throughout the United States,” the executive order states. “I call on the American people to assemble on that day in their respective places of worship, there to pay homage to the memory of President James Earl Carter, Jr. I invite the people
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 12/31/2024 9:48:16 AM (No. 1864070)
Standard operating procedure. Throughout my Federal career, anytime a former POTUS passed we got a day off.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Hazymac 12/31/2024 9:48:58 AM (No. 1864072)
How much is that going to cost?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
avital2 12/31/2024 9:52:49 AM (No. 1864077)
so what's new? many of them aren't at work anyway.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
philsner 12/31/2024 9:56:10 AM (No. 1864080)
Any day they aren't there to screw things up is a good day.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 12/31/2024 10:04:02 AM (No. 1864085)
1980 Presidential Election
Ronald Reagan 43,903,230 50.7%
Jimmy Carter 35,481,115 41.0 %
Electoral College
Ronald Reagan 489
Jimmy Carter 49
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
padiva 12/31/2024 10:37:16 AM (No. 1864110)
#5 Thanks for the history lesson. :-)
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
cor-vet 12/31/2024 10:39:48 AM (No. 1864113)
No a federal lackey, just a retired old oil field worker, but on Jan. 9th, I will pour a glass of my best adult beverage and drink to the passing of the 3rd worst President the country's ever had. First and second place is a toss up between the current vegetable and his black mentor! LBJ is running a distant 4th place.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
VAPMAN 12/31/2024 10:56:04 AM (No. 1864123)
Carter was a terrible president and for many years was always good for a nasty comment about Republicans. I will not spend January 9th in mourning and doubt many people will show up to the capital to walk by his casket unless they are bused in by Democrats.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
john56 12/31/2024 11:20:01 AM (No. 1864139)
The 1980 and 2024 election have a lot of similarities.
Both elections were thought to be close, but at the end, the Republican (Reagan, Trump) pulled away. If you add the Anderson third party vote to the Democrat, the results were much the same.
Except that Carter was a good person with his faults. You can't say that about Biden or Harris.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Birddog 12/31/2024 11:37:48 AM (No. 1864159)
Gee...just a week ago any "Govt shutdown" was a Baaaaad thang... proof that Repubs were solely at fault, and they hated America.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 12/31/2024 11:45:18 AM (No. 1864166)
So Federal workers get 3 holidays in January. 1/1, 1/9, and 1/20 (MLK). The gig will soon be up for a lot of them (I hope).
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Californian 12/31/2024 11:48:22 AM (No. 1864170)
Stop with the lies about Carter being a good person. It's complete nonsense. He is literally the father of modern terrorism and taught Arafat how to manipulate the western press to turn his terrorist group into martyrs.
Just stop it. It isn't true.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
hershey 12/31/2024 11:51:30 AM (No. 1864175)
Oh give me a break...we are going to be bombarded with tripe about the second worst president...just let him rest in peace please..
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
anniebc 12/31/2024 12:21:17 PM (No. 1864196)
If I were a federal worker, I'd go straight to work and log my time as having worked.
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What if they closed the government and no one noticed or cared?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 12/31/2024 1:17:42 PM (No. 1864245)
Carter was the worst president ever until Biden took that "honor" away.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
bpl40 12/31/2024 1:30:48 PM (No. 1864257)
How does this fit under Musk's DOGE scheme?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
JSanders 12/31/2024 1:45:29 PM (No. 1864268)
Will we even notice the difference in govt services? I think not.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
privateer 12/31/2024 2:15:04 PM (No. 1864289)
Cut down in the prime of life. Who could've seen this coming?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 12/31/2024 2:54:12 PM (No. 1864306)
I'm sure that's what a lot of government workers will be doing that day, and likely decide to take the Friday off so they have a 4-day weekend.
This right after their Christmas holiday and then will enjoy the 3-day MLK holiday weekend.
Oh, the privileged class working for the government.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
FLCracker 12/31/2024 4:07:36 PM (No. 1864334)
In 1972, Harry S Truman died on 26 Dec. Less than a month later, on 22 Jan 1973, Lyndon B Johnson died.
Now, THERE'S a way Biden can screw the Inauguration and go out with a bang, as it were.
(In the Army during the 1972-1973, we had half-day schedule leading up to Christmas, Christmas, Truman's death, New Year's, George Washington's Day, LBJ's death AND - at Fort Bragg - a Snow Day. It would have been a great time for the USSR to attack.)
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
FLCracker 12/31/2024 4:12:57 PM (No. 1864335)
#14, it wouldn't work. Civil Service Time is all computerized now. The day will be blocked off and it will be next to impossible to log in time without a whole bunch of pre-approved authorization forms.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
PostAway 12/31/2024 6:02:50 PM (No. 1864372)
Carter was awful. How he rests in eternity, whether peacefully or not, won’t be changed one iota by what people say. He was a pompous arrogant scold who tried heartily to teach Americans to dislike ourselves as much as he disliked us. And if you weren’t alive during his presidency and want to know what it was like just turn your thermostat down to 55• in the dead of winter and when you need to fill up your gas tank park near a gas pump and wait 2-6 hours before pulling up to the pump. Do this every time you need gas for several months and know that when you do finally get the nozzle in your gas tank there is no guarantee that there will be any gas left for you. In Carter’s case the sooner he is forgotten the better for the memory of him.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
rochow 12/31/2024 10:36:36 PM (No. 1864463)
Bidet, can you see my middle finger?
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
mifla 1/1/2025 4:17:13 AM (No. 1864499)
Please keep it closed until January 20th.
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