Posted on 10/11/2025 2:42:40 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Veterans of shutdowns of the past 30 years say there’s little passion, among lawmakers and constituents, over this shutdown.
Congress’s impasse over funding the government has now left federal agencies partially shuttered for more than 10 days, with no end clearly in sight. Yet the vibes on Capitol Hill were almost standard operating procedure.
Thursday night, senators debated and voted on a defense-spending bill. Then, at 9:35 p.m., the Senate closed up shop for the week. Senators went home for the holiday weekend, with next votes slated for Tuesday evening.
And before 11 a.m. Friday, House leaders sent notice they had formally canceled legislative session next week. For the next few days, at least, the halls of Congress will be quiet.
For longtime members of Congress, from both parties, this has been a very unusual government shutdown. There has been little sense of any frantic need to resolve the matter, very few late nights in the Senate and a House that has stood defiantly closed to try to force Democrats into caving to Republican demands.
“There’s less argument about things to fight about in this shutdown than any I’ve seen, and at the same time, the least intensity about getting it resolved,” said Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kansas).
Moran first ran for a House seat in 1996, the year congressional Republicans clashed with President Bill Clinton in a series of shutdowns over efforts to cut Medicare spending. He was a first-term senator in 2013, when the GOP battled President Barack Obama, and well into his second term in 2018 and 2019 when Democrats and President Donald Trump clashed over border issues in two shutdowns.
All of those seemed like events that completely consumed the attention of Washington, and the country.
“This shutdown makes no sense to me,” Moran said.
Voters also don’t seem worked up. Sen. Gary...
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The GOPee is not interested in cutting spending.
I say just shut it down forever.
Are the Dems waiting until after their protests on Saturday, 10/18 to cave?
That appears to be the case.
JUST IN: A helicopter has CRASHED in Huntington Beach, CA, narrowly missing beach-goers
Casualties unknown.
I’m managing…somehow…
If they cave before they will deflate the numbers methinks. They’ve marched themselves up a dead-end street.
“and a House that has stood defiantly closed to try to force Democrats into caving to Republican demands.”
No bias in this article/s
The only demands are the irrational ones from the democrats. We couldn’t get the Nation to vote us into power after the mess we made. We couldn’t convince Congress to keep kicking the can down the road so now we are going to hold our collective breath, fake a tantrum & turn blue.
You are right. The trees may have saved several people from being killed.
Locals are reporting that the helicopter is stuck between a building and palm trees, according to the Citizen app.
Are the Dems waiting until after their protests on Saturday, 10/18 to cave?“
Yes. That was always the plan. I would love to see Trump use this and send out a pile of RIF’s every day.
I honestly forget about the “shutdown”. Is there anyone here who has been affected by it?
I honestly forgot about the “shutdown”. Is there anyone here who has been affected by it?
“I honestly forgot about the “shutdown”. Is there anyone here who has been affected by it?”
I only worry about the military getting paid.
I’m not in the military anymore,
Other than that, no effect on my life yet.
I’ve always set myself up to be as free
from your Democrat run governments
as possible.
Money talks and Trump enjoys a good fight. I don’t expect Trump would be doing this if he couldn’t make sure his side got paid. The Federal RIFs are coming and the ‘Rats will be seen as powerless to stop it. They will try to blame Trump, but unpaid people get angry.
Bkmk
Since most of the people who work for the government are unemployable anywhere else, no great loss.
I’m betting this lasts til after the election (this November)
The rest can wait, and in fact, the longer it waits the more it becomes apparent it's not really needed and only exists to buy votes.
Well, the IRS sent me a certified letter today. So, they are just dandy. I don’t notice anything else.
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