Posted on 10/28/2025 9:47:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The fight over the shutdown is coming to a head this week as Democrats appear ready to cave after one of their biggest union backers, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), called for the Democrats to end the shutdown by supporting a Republican stopgap money bill, passed in the House last month, that would fund the government until at least the Thanksgiving holidays. Republicans are working on another stopgap funding bill to keep the government fully funded until Christmas.
Also, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has informed the White House that they cannot tap a $5 billion contingency fund to pay for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Forty-two million Americans will not receive benefits beginning Nov. 1.
To make a bad situation catastrophic for Democrats, members of the military will miss their next paycheck by the end of the week, and Obamacare premiums will skyrocket as subsidies for the new enrollment period have yet to be negotiated.
“It has a lot of impact. They’ve been our friends,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) told reporters Monday, referencing the union defection. He added that Democrats “take them seriously.”
While Democrats ponder a way to blame Republicans for this mess, despite the GOP having passed a "clean" stopgap funding bill in September, their resolve to stay the course appears to be crumbling.
“Look, I think we can still deal with health care and SNAP, but I know… the shutdown is a real challenge,” said Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, representing hundreds of thousands of federal workers. “Federal employees feel like they’ve been abused and also going for weeks now without pay.”
As for the AFGE defection changing his position, Warner said, "We'll see."
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FROM POLITICO:
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer met Monday evening with his leadership circle, including Durbin. The entire Senate Democratic caucus will meet for a closed-door lunch Tuesday.
Schumer didn’t directly address the union’s new position during a floor speech Monday. Spokespeople for Schumer also did not respond to a request for comment on the group’s statement, in which national president Everett Kelley said, “It’s time to pass a clean continuing resolution and end this shutdown today.”
Instead, Schumer noted the cascading consequences of the shutdown and laid the responsibility for ending it on Trump and Republicans, saying that the president “skipped town for his second foreign trip in a month.”
“The president should stop focusing on foreign escapades, on ballrooms, on bailouts for Argentina, and start focusing on negotiating with Democrats,” Schumer said.
Except for the military, America and the American People NEED most of the rest of the federal gov’t to be shut down - PERMANENTLY!!!
MAGA with MORE freedom and LESS gov’t!!
LESS gov’t, MORE prosperity!!!
All the right needs to do is claim this is war, and the dems, as is their history, will cut and run.
Schumer knows that if he comes up empty-handed without any sops for the ever-stronger radical wing of the Party, he is looking at his last term as a Senator and may even lose his minority leader position before then, following a vote of no-confidence in the ‘Rat caucus.
Trying to shame Trump into throwing him a bone is his only hope.
He is pathetic.
Elizabeth Warren has more power than Schumer. They listen to her.
The Republicans need to be pressuring every Red State Democrat to cave in. They are vulnerable. In terms of how long this will last, I’m betting it could go until Thanksgiving. If the shutdown ties up Thanksgiving travel, it will create problems for the GOP.
Thats to bad, I want to see the Food Stamps Shut off for at least 2-3- weeks
I assume there are others that are ready to follow suit that this Union did.
An unstated reason for all of the government unions to be concerned is this interlude is final proof nearly all of their phony baloney jobs are phony and baloney.
They have plenty of “resolve,” until it costs them personally. Other people’s pain, hey, it’s for the revolution, comrade.
“””“The president should stop focusing on foreign escapades, on ballrooms, on bailouts for Argentina, and start focusing on negotiating with Democrats,” Schumer said.”””
He did negotiate with you. He told you to piss off. Then he went about his job of running the country.
negotiating with Democrats has always meant them getting what they want...fortunately for us, there’s a new sheriff in town and those days are over.
And a month from now they can do it again
The CR is already half dead; if it were to pass today, it would still run out in three weeks, and the whole clown show would run until after Christmas.
There would be flash mob robberies of food stores all over democratic cities by fat women clambering over each other.
Now who is going to tackle them and arrest them when they are stealing food? supposedly for their five kids? It would be a bad situation all around.
Pres Trump knows that negotiating with democrats means surrender to their demands-and he already negotiated-he told Shumer to vete a la chin***...
So, we’re really just arguing about how much extra paid vacation the Federal Tapeworms get. I fear you are right.
This will be his last term. AOC will replace him in the next election.
40+ years is more than enough for this sniveling specimen.
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