Posted on 10/03/2025 3:40:06 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
If you listen carefully, you can hear two distinct sounds — one of anxiety, the other of laughter — coming from Washington, D.C. Each is muffled but not very well.
The first is of timorous Democrats promising to keep the federal government shut until Republicans add $700 billion more to the national debt. They want to hang tough, but they know they are between a rock and a hard-left place.
The second comes from President Donald Trump and Republicans stifling guffaws as they watch their opponents present them a political gift that will allow them to ax government bureaucrats faster than they’d hoped.
The shutdown began at midnight on Oct. 1, following the last tick of the clock in fiscal 2025, because Democrats refused any money if the GOP didn’t extend COVID emergency subsidies and let illegal immigrants go on Medicaid.
This mess is happening because the Democratic Party is hopelessly split. Its leftists on Capitol Hill and its radical base around the country demand fights over anything and everything Trump and Republicans try to do. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is terrified of defying them because the last time he did so, in March, when he voted with Republicans to fund the government, outraged radicals called for his head. So now he has led — by which I mean followed — his hotheads into a government shutdown.
The Democrats’ big problem and his in doing this, however, is that the shutdown allows budget director Russell Vought, chief financial axman now that Elon Musk is back in the private sector, to sack federal workers more freely than he could when Washington was still...
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I believe it's 60 days. On December 1 he can permanently fire everyone he wants.
likely related to payroll funding
RESTORING ACCOUNTABILITY TO POLICY-INFLUENCING POSITIONS WITHIN THE FEDERAL WORKFORCE
Not very long at all if directed actions were followed.
Just 2-3 days according to some reports. (which could be today or Monday)
But these people don’t like paycheck to paycheck. I wonder if that is not much of a threat to them.
However long it is, I expect either a judge to rule that they CAN’T fire all these people and/or cut all these programs and barring that, I expect the dems to cut a deal at the last second before it can happen.
I see no way that they can let this happen. Over on DU they’re already complaining about how the MSM is making this shutdown look like it’s THEIR fault.
RIF's can be issued with only 30 day notices though 60 days appears to be the norm.
I envision a non-paid furlough with a RIF handed out on the way out the door.
JMO, YMMV
See reply 8.
I would think the Trump Administration could give them a 60 notice at anytime. At the end of the 60 days, their position would be eliminated whether funding has been restored or not. If not, they would have to wait to get their final pay like anyone else.
Chuck Schumer deserves agony and plenty of it.
He has been the most undesirable, ( I want to keep this clean} son of a bitch to ever walk the US Senate’s floor!
There has never been a pleasant side to his “service!”
He is a repulsive piece of crap whose actions speak for themselves.
The sooner he is gone, the better.
I hold the voters, who put his sorry ass in Congress, in contempt for Schumer’s actions in his entire political career!
Schumer desperately needs new Democrat voters.
“Colonel BatGuano, if that really is your name...” ;-)
I have a bit of hope that the Commie Mayor will pay back NYC for inflicting Schumer on the rest of us, all these years.
Can’t Trump also get his stalled nominations through? Or is a “shutdown” appointment not equivalent to a “recess” appointment?
Schumer gains nothing by keeping it closed. And the majority of WE THE PEOPLE want it opened.
Sandy Cortez has the old Norman Bates look in her eyes for Chunky Shoomer.
If you mean the Federal Government, why do you want it opened?
I thought Trump might be trying to make the Government operate like a business, which could never get away with what government is doing. I don’t see DC helping.
Both houses of Congress are in session. A recess appointment can occur when they are not in session.
I’ll admit I did not understand one of Trump’s first term memos appointing so-and-so (don’t recall the name) as acting Attorney General.
I think you’re suggesting that if Administrator X is declared non-essential and put on furlough, and Trump would rather have Administrator Y in charge, and Y is declared essential, then that can happen.
Maybe, but I’m not sure if there are any positions like that.
As a wise Rahm once said, never let a crisis go to waste.
I read somewhere 61 days before they can start firing people. That seems pretty long to me though.
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