Posted on 10/12/2025 10:54:06 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Agencies have been shuttered going on three weeks with no end in sight as the White House and congressional Democrats continue their standoff.
The ongoing government shutdown will collide with the U.S. economy this week, as missed paychecks and the absence of billions of dollars of government services reverberate beyond federal workers and sting the broader public.
President Donald Trump and lawmakers in Congress remain deadlocked heading into a third week of shuttered federal agencies. Republicans control both chambers of Congress, but lack the votes in the Senate to defeat a filibuster of legislation to fund ongoing operations. Democrats insist that Trump and the GOP must cut a deal to preserve health insurance subsidies as part of an agreement to reopen the government.
The shutdown has already caused nationwide flight delays, closed taxpayer help lines at the Internal Revenue Service, snarled permitting approvals at the Environmental Protection Agency and Transportation Department, and shut off access to national parks.
Workers vital to national security and protecting government property remain on the job unpaid, but others — some 750,000, according to congressional bookkeepers — have been furloughed. The Trump administration laid off some 4,000 workers Friday.
The first wave of missed paychecks is likely to hurt the underlying economy in many communities. And the longer other services remain shut off, the more the shutdown’s effects will spread.
Consumers are already facing mounting economic uncertainty. The last government shutdown — a 34-day closure during Trump’s first term, the longest closure in U.S. history — shaved $11 billion off the country’s economic output, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
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Prob good right now the National Parks out west are shut off because there is flooding and snowing going on.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I for one am not looking forward to the time when the pain for being $37 trillion in debt finally hits the public.
We will soon see which of our “selfless public servants” are actually that.
Yeah, like when the slaves were released from their slavery.
They lost something and for awhile felt they had lost something, but they soon realized the GAINED do much more: FREEDOM!!!
Tough !
if congress refuses to do their job of balancing the budget, cut their pay first and foremost.
Yes,keep the National Parks closed....no momma’s l’il moftit to blazing trails anew.
America’s “Press” has to be walking on eggshells. Trump is making it clear, I think, that “his” people are going to get paid. The Deep State, not so much.
The Press is nervously hoping they can spin this.
Government expenditures is a huge slice of the GDP. I’ve been prepping like mad.
Oh well...
(boo hoo hoo)
The PAIN these bureaucrat slugs have imposed on the rest of us for decades brings them now a payback they have fully earned and RICHLY deserve.
We have all experienced the arrogance and condescension these federal workers have launched at us across America.
We were just inferior garbage to them as they bullied us and ordered us around. We were mere peasants required to dance to their tunes.
I have experienced it in national parks and federal offices. We were nothing. They were everything.
They have made life miserable for innocent Americans and now it’s their turn to suffer.
I think most of the National Parks are open but all the facilities are closed. Basically park rangers and troopers are looking after things for safety and not much else.
Nearly all Federal employees can handle a delayed or missed paycheck. I belong to credit union with government members, which permits a loan of a missed paycheck or a missed loan (e.g,car) payment. Utility companies work with furloughed Feds.
Yes. Unlike Obama, Trump is making the shutdown as painless as possible. I am still going to Blue Ridge parkway soon.
Tell the democrats they did it.
Most people have no idea how true the above statement is.
It is both amusing and educational to read the media screeds and then enter a lottery to determine when (not if) those screeds prove wrong. Ah, the one gift of modern journalists is that no matter how little one might think of themselves, they can look to journalism and think “at least I’m not like them”.
I hate that I feel so bad about schadenfreude while I watch the over-indulgent and under qualified loser class in DC feel pain as they realize that they are unnecessary and unwanted. I used to live in the greater DC area, but I can't go back anymore since the growth of wealth in what used to be moderate income (for DC) areas were being re-developed for ultra-wealthy homes in places that produced nothing and extracted everything from normal America.
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