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1 posted on 01/27/2025 3:44:25 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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it won’t work


2 posted on 01/27/2025 3:45:16 PM PST by algore
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Then I guess we’ll have to cut spending to balance the budget.

C’est la guerre!


4 posted on 01/27/2025 3:47:29 PM PST by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To flip the script like this means they are desperate.

No, it won’t work.

More winning!


5 posted on 01/27/2025 3:48:33 PM PST by simpson96
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Oh! NOW they want to control the debt.

What timing!


8 posted on 01/27/2025 4:06:28 PM PST by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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Take the money from npr and dei garbage. There’ll be plenty when Musk gets thru.


9 posted on 01/27/2025 4:08:46 PM PST by Track9 (Make haste slowly. )
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What a tremendous opportunity to cut the “progressives’” pet program down to zero!


10 posted on 01/27/2025 4:10:04 PM PST by Cold_Red_Steel
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I didn’t go behind the paywall but in the first paragraphs I didn’t see mention of the fearful term “shutting down the government.”

Isn’t that what the democrats have in mind: “shutting down the government?”

I am scared half to death.


11 posted on 01/27/2025 4:12:38 PM PST by jeffersondem
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Trump wants to take an axe to the wasteful federal government. Shutting it down only helps him do it. If/when the shutdown is resolved all those Democrat federal workers will not be getting back pay for sitting on their asses like they usually do. If they blame Trump, well they didn’t vote for him anyway so no loss, but if they blame the Democrats for being stupid guess what. It is still a win for Trump.


13 posted on 01/27/2025 4:56:24 PM PST by your other brother
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I have exactly zero confidence in the Republican congress.

But silly stuff will not get past a POTUS veto.

He has the balls to take the heat, and turn the tables.


14 posted on 01/27/2025 4:57:36 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18 )
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More insurrection from the turd rolling lefties.


15 posted on 01/27/2025 5:12:33 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Democrats are the greatest threat to America.)
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That’s cute. Democrats are threatening to not fund the government. Oh please, stop, don’t do that. Lol


16 posted on 01/27/2025 5:30:14 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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Good, maybe government will start making cuts and stop destroying the future.

Medicare, DoD, SSI, Medicaid and interest on the debt are the largest expenditures. Unless the first four are cut, the rest is peanuts.

17 posted on 01/27/2025 5:43:36 PM PST by Theoria
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Sorry, at some point Trump very may well have some problems. He’s made a lot of promises to a lot of people and some of those promises are at odds with different groups and with each other. I get the Laffer curve and all but it’s going to be tough to lower taxes and reduce the debt. The Marxists don’t care about the country - only their power.


18 posted on 01/27/2025 5:45:12 PM PST by Lake Living
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‘Please don’t throw me into that briar patch !!!’


21 posted on 01/27/2025 6:20:14 PM PST by 11th_VA (THANKS Elon)
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Empoundment.


22 posted on 01/27/2025 6:20:49 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING 0F AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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Oh no, don’t throw me into the briar patch. Shut it down, shut it all down.


23 posted on 01/27/2025 6:31:12 PM PST by gunnut
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[WAPO] Last week, the national debt hit the legal limit of $31.4 trillion....

https://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP_WS/debt/current

The current debt is $36.22 trillion. It has been a few years since it saw $31.4T.

24 posted on 01/27/2025 7:31:25 PM PST by woodpusher
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