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Why does Congress get paid and everyone else get hurt? It's Congress job to set budgets and fund government, they fail and everone else doesn't get a check or benefits. We need an Balanced Budget Amendment that removes---FOREVER--all Congressional pensions, health care, and salaries with a government shutdown or deficit budget.
1 posted on 10/10/2025 6:33:50 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: Pete Dovgan
The government is shut down?

I hadn't noticed.

2 posted on 10/10/2025 6:35:27 AM PDT by montag813
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To: Pete Dovgan
depart Washington for holiday

The shutdown must not be that important to the Dems.

3 posted on 10/10/2025 6:38:08 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Pete Dovgan

Schumber’s Shutdown isn’t looking good for the RATS. Schumer thinks free healthcare for illegal aliens is a perfect reason to stop Americans from receiving their paychecks. I guess Schumer has talked Americans into putting foreign criminals first the way their Party of Death is doing. Which is more important to the RATS? Illegal Alien criminals getting free healthcare or millions of Americans getting paid. Think about it. ROTFL! The New Yawk Trump hating shyster Court TV primate is blasting Trump for using the DOJ to throw her butt in jail for being a New Yawk crook for her felonies committed. I’ve never heard President Trump crying because her Party of Death keeps sending mentally retarded assassins out to kill him. Personally, I’d much rather have the DOJ after my ass than a bunch of retarded DemonRAT assassins with high powered rifles.


6 posted on 10/10/2025 6:52:10 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Fire the Rutgers Aunt Teefer "perfeser's" goat smelling butt NOW!!! Mark the Braying ass!)
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To: Pete Dovgan
failed to get the 60 votes necessary to overcome a filibuster

I wasn't aware that an actual filibuster was occuring. Screw a threat of a filibuster, make them actually stand up there and read Dr. seuss or something.

Likewise, the Republicans should call for another vote right after the first one, and keep it up everyday for 16+ hours a day. Really make a spectacle of it.

7 posted on 10/10/2025 6:52:38 AM PDT by voicereason (When a bartender can join Congress and become a millionaire...there’s a problem.)
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To: Pete Dovgan

Good, I like his.


8 posted on 10/10/2025 6:54:06 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....TRUMP IS RIGHT AGAIN.)
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To: Pete Dovgan

Democrats leave to celebrate Columbus Day ?


15 posted on 10/10/2025 7:14:58 AM PDT by daku
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To: Pete Dovgan

Congress job to set budgets and fund government

Per the democrat party they want to fund illegals for free healthcare to housing and everything in between.

They need all the bribes they can get for votes.


16 posted on 10/10/2025 7:15:19 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Pete Dovgan

Great news keep her shut down....


18 posted on 10/10/2025 7:36:55 AM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: Pete Dovgan

They are not worth it are they?

What holiday? They just had one.


19 posted on 10/10/2025 7:37:19 AM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: Pete Dovgan

Why do they need 60 votes? Is this the usual cloture requirement? Or is there a separate budget rule? And most importantly, if it us just cloture then why aren’t the Republicans making the Democrats filibuster this? No holidays! No weekends! Not even nights off. If paying for illegals’ medical care is that important, then they should be glad to tell the world until they start dropping like the dog in Vacation (poor little Bernie probably kept up for a mile or so).


20 posted on 10/10/2025 7:49:42 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (I pray that the sleeping giant has finally awakened and been filled with a terrible resolve.)
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To: Pete Dovgan

Donks have No Kings rallys scheduled for next week and would never consider caving prior...couldn’t take the heat...

...but after, when checks stop...they’ll cave then...enough to get 60 votes. Schumer won’t, can’t, but no one is following him any longer .


21 posted on 10/10/2025 7:59:18 AM PDT by chiller ( )
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To: Pete Dovgan

Schumer seems to think that real eyeglasses help him to see better.


22 posted on 10/10/2025 8:08:15 AM PDT by Daveinyork ( )
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To: Pete Dovgan

Holiday = vacation.


27 posted on 10/10/2025 10:36:07 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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