Posted on 11/14/2025 8:14:52 AM PST by Signalman
A Democrat representative appears to have revealed the party’s next plot to sow chaos in DC and stall President Donald Trump’s agenda.
Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA), who represents South Boston in Congress, told CNN’s Omar Jimenez on Friday that the party could be eyeing a second attempt at shutting down the government when the short-term continuing resolution expires in January.
“Democrat Rep. Stephen Lynch says he is “furious” that the government reopened and suggests the Democrats will shut down the government again in January,” RNC Research wrote on X in a post accompanying the CNN clip.
“I’m, I’m, I’m furious with the senators who decided to bail on us,” Lynch said as Jimenez listened.
“There may be another opportunity in January, when this CR expires, but I’m not sure this experience has stiffened their spine. They should worry more about the people they represent, than, than, you know, the Republican speaker or, or the White House.”
The 43-day shutdown spanning late September to mid-November was a record, beating the 2018-2019 shutdown by a whopping 8 days.
Trump signed legislation late Wednesday evening to reopen the federal government after the historic lapse.
The bill, approved by the House of Representatives in a 222-209 vote after the Senate’s earlier passage, provides funding for most federal agencies through Jan. 30, 2026, and extends full-year appropriations for the Departments of Agriculture and Veterans Affairs, and the legislative branch.
It also restores pay and back pay to more than one million federal employees who were either furloughed or forced to work without pay during the shutdown. Some 650,000 of those workers are expected to return to work as early as Thursday.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, a key architect of the funding package, called the measure “a clean resolution that reopens government and restores services,” while Senate Democrats criticized the bill for failing to extend key health-insurance subsidies tied to the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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Oh yeah, they will definitely shut down the government again in Jan. And they will try to keep it shut down as long as possible.
Maybe their ultimate goal at this point is to push Republicans into ending the Filibuster? Then the Republicans could be painted as the bad guys responsible for ending America when the RATs eventually fool America into giving them power again.
Only if they are done with EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN!!!!
And the ones will vote to keep it open
Give it up. You lost
Another Massoftwoshits retard.
AND “insider stock tips!”
How many of them go to WDC relatively poor and retire multi-millionaires?
Big time!
That damn Mass RAT actually wants to starve 42 million Americans. And people actually voted for this murderous aho.
I couldn’t agree more.
Oh. Now I can understand. Another retarded Mass politician. I had an uncle once that was one of them.
Fine. We need something new to pressure the GOP to do away with the filibuster and start really passing their agenda without Dem obstructionism. (And if they are really concerned with Dems doing the same, I believe the GOP could always make the filibuster law afterwards and that would make it subject to the filibuster to remove it later by the Dems, i.e. the GOP could get rid of it with 50 votes but then reinstate it and make it so that it takes 60 votes to get rid of it again.)
Former AZ congresswoman Debbie Lesko is about the only one I can think of that hasn’t
“they probably get more from kickbacks and bribes than they do from congressional pay”
Sort of like athletes making more from endorsements than pay... except for athletes that’s all out in the open.
who knew that the big government Democrats were really the party of no government!
Absolutely. These guys are outright thieves and traitors.
Could the military and air traffic guys get an advance on their pay before this period runs out?
So the people in his district supported the government being shut down?
So it should easily pass.
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