Posted on 10/02/2025 10:52:33 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Forget pickleball and wine tasting.
The government shutdown may force lawmakers in both parties to scrap luxury retreats planned this month in Napa Valley and Sea Island, Georgia.
The Senate GOP’s planned getaway to the ultra-exclusive Sea Island is slated to begin on Friday, but it’s not clear whether lawmakers will go through with the trip while the federal government remains shuttered amid a partisan spending standoff that began Oct. 1.
Senate Democrats have more time to decide whether to go forward with their Napa Valley political conference, which is slated to start Oct. 13 at the Hotel Yountville, a luxury resort and spa located in the heart of California’s wine country.
Without a resolution, Congress will be grappling with Day 12 of a government shutdown when Democrats hope to jet to the West Coast for their luxury retreat. The shutdown left federal employees, including air traffic controllers and other essential workers, without paychecks and shuttered non-essential government services.
On Thursday, the two parties remained at a standoff over a funding bill and continued to blame each other for the impasse, which is centered primarily on Democrats’ objections to the elimination of COVID-era enhanced Obamacare subsidies.
Senate lawmakers plan another vote on a bill Friday to extend government funding until Nov. 21 after earlier attempts failed to win enough Democrats to meet the required 60-vote threshold. The Friday vote is also expected to fall short.
Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday that “of course” the Senate GOP should remain in Washington over the weekend to work a deal to end the shutdown.
“The House is coming back next week hoping they will be sending us something to work on and we can get back to the work of the people,” the Louisiana Republican said. “They are anxious to come back.”
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Oh those poor babies. Boo-hoo!! 😭
During a shutdown Congress should not get paid either and not allowed to leave the capitol building or at least not DC city limits.
Oh no.....!
Anyway, our local theater is playing Casper so we are taking the cubs out with ice cream after.
And hopefully their paychecks as well.
no more 3 martini lunches either- how will they ever survive?
Debbie Wasserman Schultz actually complained one time during a potential shutdown that her workers were ‘starving’ because they were not going to be able to eat at some posh dining place and get their martinis with their lunches-
Tell me Debbie- when is the last time you missed a meal? Ever gone a week without food because of no finances? When is the last time you had to fish so that you could eat a meal that day? Ever had bare cabinets? Yeah, didn’t think so!
YAY!
The GOP had better be able to read the room. Cancel now or be crucified by every media outlet, including Fox.
It would be completely tone deaf and akin to ripping defeat from the jaws of victory. The messaging war will determine the winner of this battle.
We should just surrender and stop resisting because the gaslight press will gaslight us!
Cry me a river.
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