Posted on 10/15/2025 1:43:45 AM PDT by Libloather
A long weekend away from Washington, D.C., did little to soften Senate Democrats’ resolve as they again blocked an effort to reopen the government for an eighth time Tuesday.
The beginning of mass firings promised by the Trump administration and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought over the weekend also failed to sway Senate Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
One pressure point was alleviated for both sides, however, with President Donald Trump’s directive to move money around at the Pentagon to pay military service members. Their paychecks are due Oct. 15.
Still, another payday, this time for Senate staffers, is fast approaching on Oct. 20.
Both sides are still dug into the same positions that launched the shutdown earlier this month, too. Talks between the opposing factions are still ongoing but have not yet yielded a result that either side is ready to move on.
Senate Democrats want an extension to expiring Obamacare subsidies before the Nov. 1 open enrollment date, and they argue that unless Congress takes action, Americans that rely on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits will see their premiums skyrocket.
However, Trump appears unwilling to cave into Senate Democrats' demands, and reupped Republicans' argument that Democrats wanted to undo a total of $1.5 trillion in spending cuts from the "big, beautiful bill" and clawback of funding for NPR and PBS to give, in part, to illegal immigrants.
"I don't want to bore you with the fact that Schumer said 100 times, ‘You should never close our government,’" Trump told reporters at the White House. "But Schumer is a weakened politician. I mean, he's going to finish his career as a failed politician, as a failed politician. He's allowed the radical left to take over the Democrat Party."
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DEMOCRAT Chuck Schumer is all about ILLEGALS
Without ILLEGALS, DEMOCRATS LOSE ELECTIONS
Thus, the illegal aliens have to go home like E.T.
Maybe if Schumer puts his glasses back on the end of his nose, he might see more clearly.
Shucks boys are living in bitemes basement.
Silence from the electability challenged senators is ‘deathening ‘
Hope they don’t try to erase the opposition like the 46 regime did in Butler, PA.
I pray for the shoe to drop on that and Charlie Kirks murder too.
We are a nation of laws
The “Obamacare” subsidies probably fund their voting organizations. They really WANT that money.
I have a question for all of you who are not government employees. How have you been impacted by this shutdown?
“How have you been impacted by this shutdown?”
There’s a shutdown?
“ Americans that rely on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits will see their premiums skyrocket.”
Wrong. The ACA premiums are going to go back to what they originally were in the ACA. What is going away is the Covid money.
The deMS-13s don’t want that fact to get out because it will show the public how bad the ACA is.
It’s time for the gop to go on the offensive with this.
EC
Upchuck Schmuck just keeps tossing Trump Rabbit into the briars.
What is this shutdown you talk about
Yes. My cheeks hurt from smiling about the prospect of cutting wasteful spending.
The fact that most Americans haven’t noticed any difference in their everyday lives tells you all you need to know about how useless all these government parasites are.
Democrats again block GOP effort to reopen government.
The longer they stall the more things they lose.
Senate Democrats scratch ass and wonder why is that happening.
Still waiting for an explanation of why Republicans won’t end the shutdown by using the nuclear option to void a fillibuster.
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