Posted on 09/03/2025 12:13:40 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
One month before lights out.
As the deadline looms for Congress to pass a government funding bill, political gamesmanship is not just front and center – it’s the main point. Each side is looking to demonstrate strength to the electorate and gain significant fiscal wins. But with Democratic members seemingly attached to an oppositional doctrine regardless of optics, and the GOP looking to make hay for the 2026 midterms, rapprochement over a shutdown is far from likely.
A Battlefield at Dawn
The stage was set when Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) publicly warned the administration that if it went ahead with a further “pocket rescission” of $5 billion of foreign aid cash, Republicans would be “going it alone this fall.” If it was a bluff, it has been called. Congressional Democrats may well refuse to work with the GOP to get funding secured, but there are two aspects they should have already considered.
First, the party that refuses to get on board is generally the one that ends up taking the blame. Second, what makes them think the president wants to keep the government funded? And as a bonus for President Donald Trump, the eventual deal that Schumer must strike could well be the final nail in his political coffin.
When the last deadline loomed in March, the New York leader was pilloried by his own party supporters for “not holding Trump to account.” He said on the Senate floor at the time:
“I believe it is my job to make the best choice for the country, to minimize the harms to the American people. Therefore, I will vote to keep the government open and not shut it down … There is nobody in the world, nobody, who wants to shut the government down more than Donald Trump and more than...”
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Shut! It! Down!
AOC will soon be the new Senator of NY. God help us all...
The best way for you to minimize the harms to Americans is to quit.
Wait a bit. The usual gov lovers will Chinese in that a Gov shutdown is Armageddon .
CHIME IN...how did it get Chinese?
Heh heh. Stupid autocorrect.
The only thing that never shuts down during a government shutdown is The IRS.
About 80% or more never shut down.
END Continuing Resolutions! I voted for an actual budget and appropriations process. Get on it!
And he is like the only one NOT making money, legally or under the table, from that job. So why should he care, except for the people who have to cover it with their tax payments, about keeping the grift going?
Democrats only take instructions from their lobbyists after the bids are in.
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