Posted on 10/01/2025 3:16:10 AM PDT by backpacker_c
Congressional Republicans and Democrats have failed to reach an agreement to avert a government shutdown before a midnight deadline, resulting in the first government funding lapse of President Trump’s second term.
The Senate held one last failed vote on a GOP funding plan Tuesday night ahead of the deadline. The measure received the support of 55 senators
Senator Rand Paul (R., Ky.) was the lone Republican to oppose the measure.
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The #@!&* grandstanding republican traitor rand paul might as well change parties, the way he's been opposing Trump.
He’s no traitor for doing it
‘Shutter down until its balanced. That’s his position and has been for 15 years
When do the layoffs start? Use this opportunity!
So will there be fences put up around the ww2 memorial?😎😂
Old people children and trans hit hardest😂
Never let a crisis go to waste.
The government keeps open both constitutionally required offices and any functions deemed essential for safety, security, or required by permanent law. Everything else gets paused until Congress passes funding.
Lets stay right here! The government is right-sized, and the “budget” is perfectly balanced.
well, I can dream anyways.
So how is Rand different from the 99% democrats who also voted against?
He does it for different reasons
I hope those employees who failed to return to the office when requested don’t get retro-pay.
So how is Rand different from the 99% democrats who also voted against?
His reasoning for voting against is diametrically opposed to the dumblecrat reasons for doing so.
[Not that I agree, necessarily...]
I hope DJT is ready to hack away at the brush in government...Its a golden opportunity to do what DOGE could only hint at doing.
Schumer did this country a favor! Maybe Trump should give him a medal! [j/k]
I’m liking John Fetterman. I don’t agree with him on a lot, but he seems to stand on principle.
Shut down the interstate highway rest stops so that this one the shumer shuckster shut down gives trackshun .
It will be payback, just like the dimocrats did to the right when obamy punished us in 2010.
PS they don’t need a bathroom break they stay in the left lane and are use to pissing in their pants. It gives them that warm tingling feeling ....
bull....rand paul is a bitter little man, and likely still p*ssed at Trump for wiping the floor with him in the presidential primaries....
so now, rand opposed Trump and sides with the dems where ever he can...
yet rand thinks so highly of himself, that rand thinks he's owed respect from Trump and invites to republican events, etc.
No he does it for totally differing reasons to them
WHere is your evidence to suggest otherwise? It’s just you making that claim
YES but backpacker has it in his head that Rand does it to spite Trump or for partisan politics or something
Nothing could be further from the truth
Considering that only 20-30% of fed spending is impacted, this is not a shutdown, but a brown out.
“”Senator Rand Paul (R., Ky.) was the lone Republican to oppose the measure.”””
Once again the idiot Rand helps his fellow democrats.
“”No he does it for totally differing reasons to them
WHere is your evidence to suggest otherwise? It’s just you making that claim””
It doesn’t matter what ‘noble cause’ Rand cloaks his resistance and obstructionism underneath. The end result is still the same. Rand sides with the evil left Democrats...
AGAINST Trump’s agenda.
You keep trying to put lipstick on that pig, but that pig is still just a pig, after all..
and no amount of makeup can or will disguise it.
One of the reasons this country is $37 trillion in debt is that President Trump will sign anything these clowns in Congress put on his desk.
Please forward your concerns to Chuck Schumer's phone. Ty and have a nice day.
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