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WASHINGTON, DC—The U.S. House of Representatives hit the brakes on its long-awaited vote to end the 43-day government shutdown Wednesday morning after a rogue coffee urn toppled over, drenching the electronic voting terminals in what one harried IT specialist called “the bitter brew of fiscal irresponsibility.” The mishap, unfolding just as lawmakers geared up to rubber-stamp a bipartisan funding package cobbled together in the Senate two days prior, has prolonged the agony for furloughed federal workers and left the nation’s IOUs looking soggier than a forgotten gym sock. The $1.8 trillion stopgap measure—hailed by optimists as a “ceasefire in the debt wars” and by pessimists as “kicking the fiscal can down a pothole-riddled road”—passed the Senate 60-40 on November 9, dodging filibusters faster than a lobbyist evades subpoenas. It promises to fling open the doors of shuttered agencies, from the National Park Service (currently operating on a “views are free, porta-potties optional” basis) to the IRS (which, in a poetic irony, has been auditing its own vending machine receipts). But back in the House, where the bill now teeters on the edge of approval, the morning’s caffeine-fueled fiasco has turned what should have been a triumphant gavel-bang into a slapstick sideshow. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), presiding with the furrowed brow of a man who’s just realized his ranch back home is being patrolled by unpaid Border Patrol ghosts, declared an impromptu recess as clerks mopped up the mess. “We’ve spent 43 days proving that democracy can grind to a halt over policy preferences,” Hale quipped to a scrum of reporters nursing their own lukewarm lattes outside the chamber. “Who knew it would take a $4 Americano to remind us that hydration is non-negotiable?” Even more eyebrow-raising is the preliminary vote readout, flashed on the chamber’s big screen before the coffee deluge shorted the system: 238 yeas to 197 nays—a tally that, while shy of the magic 218 for passage, inexplicably includes 12 abstentions from members who’ve been vacationing in non-extradition countries since October. Pundits chalk it up to “phantom votes” from proxy apps glitching under the weight of partisan Slack channels, or perhaps a merciful rounding error in a body where “bipartisan” often means “everyone hates it equally.” One beleaguered clerk, anonymous to preserve her eligibility for unemployment benefits, admitted, “We hit ‘record’ and suddenly it looked like the shutdown had bipartisan appeal. Turns out, it’s just the software unionizing against us.” With the clock ticking toward another weekend of closed Smithsonian doors and delayed Social Security checks, the House has decamped to the Capitol’s underground tunnel system for what aides are calling a “dry-run deliberation.” Democrats, still smarting over the bill’s omission of their cherished healthcare subsidy expansions, have vowed to “extract concessions at the concession stand.” Republicans, buoyed by a pre-dawn tweetstorm from President-elect J.D. Vance endorsing the package as “a wall against wasteful spending,” counter that any further delays are “Democrat sabotage disguised as decaf.” As of deadline, the vote remains suspended, with technicians frantically drying circuit boards and ethicists debating whether memos count as “undisclosed gifts.” Political bookies, sensing blood—or at least spilled joe—in the water, have slashed odds on passage to 4:1, factoring in “the unbreakable American habit of reopening everything, eventually, with extra napkins.” In a Rose Garden address interrupted only by the distant echo of a leaf blower (one of the few federally funded jobs still operational), President Joe Biden urged unity. “Folks, we’ve shut down longer than a bad blind date,” he said, peering over his aviators. “Let’s pour one out for the workers, fix the damn urn, and get this government back in the black—starting with the coffee budget.” The Capitol Chronicle will track this drip-feed of drama, provided the Wi-Fi holds. The post BREAKING: House halts funding vote due to water main leak appeared first on Genesius Times.