Posted on 10/28/2025 5:10:05 AM PDT by Red Badger
Democrats appear to be unmoved by fresh demands from the largest federal employees’ union to reopen the government, a sign that the shutdown stalemate between lawmakers will continue as government workers increasingly feel the pain during the process.
It’s the latest example of how pressure points have not had the power to bring an end to the current shutdown, which is already the second longest in US history with no end in sight. Over one million federal workers are going unpaid as the impasse drags on and some are turning to food pantries.
Democrats were quick to say they care about the plight of federal workers and what the union has to say. But that doesn’t change the fact that most remain firmly dug in on the position that they won’t provide the votes to reopen the government unless their concerns over the rising costs of health care are met.
Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin acknowledged that the statement from the American Federation of Government Employees, “immediately” has an “impact” on Democrats, who have closely aligned with the group, though he didn’t predict a change in strategy.
“It has a lot of impact, and they’ve been our friends and we’ve worked with them over the years,” Durbin told reporters on Monday, adding that he has talked to representatives with the union and recognizes that they’re in “a terrible mess” representing so many federal employees who are missing paychecks and facing threats to their jobs.
Still, Durbin told CNN, “I’m not seeing any change in position at this time” as Democrats continue to oppose a bill to extend current funding levels through November 21.
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For decades I have watched Democrats get people killed by the thousands and millions here and abroad. They sleep just fine at night in fact they are smug. Why does anyone think they care if people are hungry or any of the other horrible things they cause?
“....unless their concerns over the rising costs of health care are met.”
Like providing pork and additional $$$ for illegals. Right Dick?
I remember when the GOP shut down gov’t and the media was going bonkers and blaming the GOP. So the ended up caving.
It really is nice to have the communist news on your side.
“Who do these people think they are, this is about US?”
AFGE knows what’s going on, and they do not like being used as pawns....................
Dems hate and resent power when they don’t have it.
Federal workers union will soon be endorsing Republicans ...
They resent the people with the power.
Power is what they crave...............
“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
― George Orwell, 1984
The Dems want food riots. They are practically salivating. Get 1 out of 7 hooked on food stamps, then pull out the rug. It’s the summer of love all over again.
This should be a real “wake-up call” and urban blacks.
The current RAT communists care more about illegals and their free healthcare, than the welfare of any union member or black person whatsoever.
They need to realize that they’ve been stabbed in the back by these vile, anti-American basstids.
At this point the Democrats want to wait and see if the Republicans buckle when the Natives go on their rampage at the beginning of next month. If the Republicans don’t buckle, then the Dems will have to make their TOUGH CHOICE, which is watching their core constituent group finally go on a long-needed diet, or keep them fat and happy.
This whole scenarion is teh result of just on small clique of Democrats in the Senate led by Schmucky.
The House has passed the CR, the Senate has voted it down like 12 times already.
But cracks are beginning to show in their Wall of Defiance.
AFGE calling for them to end the shutdown shows that they know the score. They didn’t call out the REPUBLICANS, they called out teh DEMOCRATS, and that should tell them and everybody else just exactly what’s happening...................
This stunt they are pulling will blow up in their faces like the Hindenberg.............
Democrats: Your suffering is our leverage.
The democrats are willing to keep the government shut down to give people something they didn’t work for while also keeping paychecks people worked for withheld.
Think about that.
They’re keeping people from getting paid for work performed so that they can give something to people who didn’t necessarily work for it.
That should be the complete memo.
Taking care of people is never the issue; the revolution is always the issue.
The Republicans should force a vote on the CR twice a day, every day and immediately go to the press and lament about the democrats preventing the government from opening.
Saturate the airwaves and don’t let little chucky push his “trump shut down” attempt at a narrative.
The fact we have a million non-essential government employees is a problem itself
Working Americans aren’t feeling any pinch but this
By this
I wish we had an edit function
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