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Posted on 11/14/2025 3:40:17 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The government is open again, but only because Democrats finally admitted defeat.
After orchestrating the longest shutdown in American history — 43 days of economic carnage and manufactured crisis — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) walked away with exactly what they deserved: nothing. No wins. No concessions. No extensions of the pandemic-era ObamaCare subsidies over which they had been holding the country hostage. Just a battered economy, furious constituents, and a party eating its own.
House and Senate conservatives refused to blink, and Democrats had nowhere left to go.
The wreckage they left behind tells the real story. Economic analysts estimate tens of billions in GDP losses. Thousands of flights had to be canceled or delayed as the Transportation Security Administration warned of operational breakdowns. Federal employees missed rent payments and maxed out credit cards just to pay their bills. Veterans were made to wait for benefits that should have arrived weeks earlier.
All of this misery was intentional. Democrats weren’t negotiating. They were inflicting pain as a political tactic.
House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) admitted as much: “Of course there will be families that are going to suffer… but it is one of the few leverage times we have.” In the midst of the suffering, Schumer boasted that “every day gets better for us.”
When House Republicans proposed paying service members, law enforcement and essential workers during the crisis, Senate Democrats repeatedly voted it down, and Jeffries waved it off as a “political ploy.”
In their calculus, American hardship was an asset to be exploited, not a problem to be solved.
President Trump saw it differently. While Democrats staged their theatrical standoff, he...
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The next potential shutdown is January 31, 2026.
Since the Republicans still haven’t passed a complete federal budget, this act will return Jan. 31, 2026 for an encore performance. Trump’s overhaul of the federal workforce is still mired in the federal judiciary. Some government employees have been paid to do nothing since February.
Ok-so we won. Do we get a prize?
That is an act of war.
Only if you collect EBT.
I thought the government was saving money
It is hard to believe this came from “The Hill”.
The ‘Rats get to keep some of their white collar welfare recipients on the dole [RIFed gov’t “workers”].
“Not a defeat! Not a defeat!” the Democrats are telling us.
Of course not. It was a total and apocalyptic catastrophe.
Unfortunately, American voters have very short memories, and all will be forgotten and forgiven by November 2026.
They’re back to claiming it was the Republicans that shut it down on social media.
You’re funny.
Shutdowns cost nothing.
The federal government doing nothing actually saves money.
Employees are always paid back so there’s no cost difference. Any lost work time is irrelevant because they pick up where they left off..they NEVER make up the lost time.
Shutdowns cause delays nothing more.
useless government workers got their jobs back and a full month of paid vacation.
The whole thing bites.
THe government can print as much money as it wants. This was all about political finger-pointing.
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