Posted on 10/12/2025 11:46:27 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
As Trump brokers peace abroad, Democrats keep Washington closed—a split-screen of global triumph and domestic dysfunction.
As members of the cabinet met at the White House to celebrate the beginning of the end of the war in Gaza, a product of the peace deal that Secretary of State Marco Rubio praised as “a historic moment in the history of our country,” the Senate prepared to vote.
It was the seventh vote to reopen the federal government, and it failed, 54-45, along the same predictable lines as all the other attempts before it. All but three Democrats voted against the measure. Every Republican, except Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, supported it.
Gridlock endures, and now, a split-screen that the White House favors has emerged: President Trump rallied the international community, including bitter enemies, to bring an end to a two-year war, but Democrats will not bring the shutdown to a close.
“While we’re all celebrating this incredible success that we’ve had on the world stage,” said Vice President JD Vance, “the country could be doing so much better if Chuck Schumer did his job and opened the government.”
Democrats have refused to turn the lights back on until Republicans extend Obamacare subsidies, something the White House has expressed a willingness to negotiate over, but only after the shutdown ends. “Every day gets better for us,” Senate Minority Leader Schumer said Wednesday in an interview with Punchbowl News before the shutdown dragged into its ninth day.
“It’s because we’ve thought about this long in advance, and we knew that health care would be the focal point on Sept. 30,” he added, “and we prepared for it.”
That focal point has since been obscured by the prospect of a generational peace agreement. Wednesday evening, during a roundtable at the White House on an unrelated topic, Rubio slid a written...
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Yeah, we know...Schumer will say we will regret it.
But the majority of WE THE PEOPLE...have another take....and if that what it takes to open it up...do it. The government was not meant to be shut down...ever...
Y’all know, as long as we can pay the military, The people will notice that the “shutdown” as it is shows just how much government we don’t really need.
Sure they close the parks and do the things to piss people off, but the reality is this is most of the shut Federal government is just a jobs program for Democrats, that are too stupid to do anything useful.
What? The government was never meant to be shut down? LOL - what color is the sky in your world?
Please explain your stake in the Federal Government.
If the military and SS recipients are paid, I couldn’t care less about the rest.
That filibuster ability has saved conservative Americans’ asses more than once when democrats held the majority-if it is gone, and they ever slither back into power, they will ride the republican minority-and all of us-bareback like the devil with spurs on. Even evil Harry Reid knew the value of having the filibuster...
As long as the military gets paid and people get SS and veteran’s benefits during this shutdown, we are fine and not bleeding taxpayers’ money for a few days or weeks-so no me importa...
All this over a 50-day CR. We need a real budget that covers the entire fiscal year, not the CR clown show.
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