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  • Democrat Rep. Madeleine Dean Fumes as President Trump Uses Unspent Funds to Pay Troops During Democrat Shutdown

    10/15/2025 5:33:25 AM PDT · by TigerClaws · 30 replies
    Democrat Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) lashed out after President Donald Trump announced that he would use unspent research and development (R&D) funds to pay U.S. troops amid the ongoing Democrat-caused government shutdown. During a CNN interview with John Berman, Rep. Dean is fuming that President Trump is keeping our brave troops paid during the Democrat-led shutdown. John Berman: “How do you feel about these paychecks going out during the shutdown? I don’t think anyone’s opposed to people being paid, but people look at this and say this could actually extend the shutdown because it takes out some of the pressure...
  • Trump is using the government shutdown to do something no president has ever done

    10/15/2025 4:44:36 AM PDT · by deport · 30 replies
    Fox News ^ | October 15, 2025 5:00am EDT | Mehek Cooke
    The United States government shutdown drags on, marking a pivotal moment in America’s fiscal and constitutional history. President Donald Trump, the negotiator-in-chief, isn’t blinking. He’s swinging the axe at bloated, Democrat-run bureaucracies that have taken trillions from hardworking Americans for decades. While Nancy Pelosi and her party claim "chaos" and Trump is turning crisis into clarity — freezing $26 billion in blue-state pork, halting green-energy pet projects and directing departments to prepare reduction-in-force plans as part of a broader review of spending and accountability. Those plans are now in motion: the Office of Management and Budget confirmed that federal layoffs...
  • Trump blasts 'weakened' Schumer as Democrats again block GOP effort to reopen government

    10/15/2025 1:43:45 AM PDT · by Libloather · 14 replies
    Fox News ^ | 10/14/25 | Alex Miller
    A long weekend away from Washington, D.C., did little to soften Senate Democrats’ resolve as they again blocked an effort to reopen the government for an eighth time Tuesday. The beginning of mass firings promised by the Trump administration and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought over the weekend also failed to sway Senate Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. One pressure point was alleviated for both sides, however, with President Donald Trump’s directive to move money around at the Pentagon to pay military service members. Their paychecks are due Oct. 15. Still, another...
  • Kennedy: Rep. Ocasio-Cortez is calling the shots in the Democratic Party

    10/14/2025 10:14:30 AM PDT · by metmom · 42 replies
    you tube ^ | October 4, 2025 | Senator John Kennedy
    Senator John Kennedy presentation to the Senate on who's in charge of the Democrat party and her role in the shutdown, in his usual unfiltered way. Video is 21 mins long
  • Mike Johnson Says Dems Won’t End Shutdown Until After ‘No Kings’ Protest. Internal Docs Show He May Be Right.

    10/13/2025 5:52:38 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 28 replies
    Daily Wire ^ | Oct 13, 2025 | Amber Jo Cooper
    House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has suggested Democrats may be waiting to cave and reopen the government until after this weekend’s “No Kings” protest. Internal rally documents reviewed by The Daily Wire indicate he’s on to something. On Saturday, demonstrators across the country will gather in what organizers describe as a “peaceful national day of action and mass mobilization in response to the increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption of the Trump administration.” That includes a major event outside the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Johnson suggested on Fox News last weekend that Democrats were holding out for the protest in order...
  • Forget Obamacare subsidies — it’s time to mend or END the whole thing

    10/13/2025 4:04:35 AM PDT · by WhiteHatBobby0701 · 21 replies
    The New York Post ^ | 11 October 2025 | Editorial Board
    Democrats shut down the government partly to force Republicans to extend COVID-era boosts in Obamacare subsidies that Dems once called “temporary” but now say are needed to keep the program viable. This reveals what a true disaster Obamacare has been, as its critics warned even as Dems were ramming it into law with not a single Republican vote in 2010. Blindly tossing fresh trillions down that hole is nuts: Time to fix it — or scrap it altogether. The 10-year cost of Dems’ current demand totals almost a half-trillion dollars, to benefit primarily insurers and wealthier Americans. Under the expiration...
  • The pain from the government shutdown is about to hit the public

    10/12/2025 10:54:06 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 41 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | October 12, 2025 7:00 a.m. EDT | Jacob Bogage and Hannah Natanson
    Agencies have been shuttered going on three weeks with no end in sight as the White House and congressional Democrats continue their standoff.The ongoing government shutdown will collide with the U.S. economy this week, as missed paychecks and the absence of billions of dollars of government services reverberate beyond federal workers and sting the broader public.President Donald Trump and lawmakers in Congress remain deadlocked heading into a third week of shuttered federal agencies. Republicans control both chambers of Congress, but lack the votes in the Senate to defeat a filibuster of legislation to fund ongoing operations. Democrats insist that Trump...
  • Pressure growing on Johnson to call House back amid shutdown fight

    10/12/2025 6:22:07 AM PDT · by RandFan · 68 replies
    The Hill ^ | 10/12/25 6:00 AM ET | by Mike Lillis
    House GOP leaders are facing increasing pressure to bring the chamber back to Washington amid a shutdown fight with no end in sight. A growing number of GOP lawmakers are voicing frustrations with their leadership for prolonging the House recess, warning that the optics surrounding that inactivity could backfire on the party to the benefit of Democrats. The rumbling is creating a headache for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and his leadership team, who have made canceling votes a central part of the Republicans’ shutdown strategy. In doing so, they’re betting that an empty House will pile pressure on Senate Democrats...
  • Newt Gingrich on Trump’s shutdown layoffs: ‘He’s willing to take the heat’

    10/12/2025 4:50:28 AM PDT · by Libloather · 24 replies
    The Hill ^ | 10/12/25 | Ryan Mancini
    Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) praised President Trump for being “willing to take the heat” after thousands of furloughed federal employees were laid off during the government shutdown. “What’s fascinating, if you watch, Trump has now begun to systematically lay off people permanently,” Gingrich said Sunday on the “Cats Roundtable” radio show hosted by John Catsimatidis on WABC 770 AM. “I think what Trump is gambling is that he can actually change the federal government dramatically during the shutdown.” “He’s willing to take the heat because, frankly, when he’s busy going to the Middle East to be part of...
  • Trump Orders Troops to Get Paid on October 15 Despite Shutdown

    10/11/2025 6:22:34 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 15 replies
    Townhall ^ | 10/11/2025 | Scott McClallen
    President Donald Trump has ordered Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to use “all available funds” to pay troops on Oct. 15. The federal government shut down on Oct. 1 because U.S. lawmakers couldn't pass a funding bill. Trump blamed Democrats for the shutdown. He didn't say what funds the government plans to use to pay the troops. "We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS. I will not allow the Democrats to hold our Military, and the entire Security of our Nation, HOSTAGE, with their dangerous Government Shutdown. The Radical Left...
  • Pentagon will pay military troops, Trump says, shifting $8B

    10/11/2025 3:30:47 PM PDT · by MNDude · 36 replies
    President Donald Trump on Saturday announced that he will direct Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to “use all available funds to get our Troops PAID on October 15th” as the government shutdown nears its third week. After the Senate failed to approve spending legislation this week, military members were preparing to go without their paychecks on Wednesday for the first time in U.S. history. We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS,” the president wrote in the social media post Saturday. “I will not allow the Democrats to hold our Military,...
  • 4,000 federal workers fired due to ongoing government shutdown

    10/11/2025 4:00:01 AM PDT · by Libloather · 80 replies
    NY Post ^ | 10/11/25 | Victor Nava
    The Trump administration revealed in a court filing that more than 4,000 federal workers were fired Friday as a result of the ongoing partial government shutdown. The mass layoffs will affect government workers in at least seven Cabinet-level agencies, according to the document filed in the District Court for the Northern District of California, where federal employee labor unions are suing to stop the Trump administration from downsizing amid the lapse in federal funding. The bulk of the layoffs took place at the Treasury Department and the Department of Health and Human Services, where approximately 1,446 employees and up to...
  • Cybersecurity agency that clashed with Trump one of the first hit with federal firings due to government shutdown

    10/10/2025 7:44:25 PM PDT · by Libloather · 35 replies
    NY Post ^ | 10/10/25 | Steven Nelson
    WASHINGTON — The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is among the offices being permanently downsized as a result of the ongoing partial government shutdown, The Post has learned. The RIFs (reductions in force), which started Friday, will fire many of CISA’s 2,540 employees as well as thousands more within the federal bureaucracy — after President Trump repeatedly threatened to target offices cherished by Democrats if the party’s senators refused to reopen the government. In an indication of the possible scale of the RIF, CISA had planned to keep just 889 employees on duty during a shutdown while furloughing 65%...
  • House GOP blocks Dems' military pay bill as government shutdown threatens checks

    10/10/2025 10:08:05 PM PDT · by Libloather · 32 replies
    Fox News ^ | 10/10/25 | Elizabeth Elkind
    A Democrat-led bid to force through a bill to pay the military during the government shutdown was blocked in the House on Friday. Democrats and some Republicans have been demanding a House vote on ensuring U.S. troops do not miss their coming Oct. 15 paycheck or any others as the government shutdown barrels into a third week. But GOP leaders have largely dismissed the request, panning it as a Democrat bid to save face after rejecting Republicans' funding bill that would have kept the military and other federal workers paid. Rep. Sarah Elfreth, D-Md., attempted to ask for unanimous consent...
  • Trump says federal layoffs will be ‘Democrat-oriented’

    10/10/2025 6:52:15 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 18 replies
    The Hill ^ | 10/10/25
    President Trump on Friday said the ongoing layoffs of furloughed federal workers amid the government shutdown will be “Democrat-oriented.” “And it will be Democrat-oriented, because we figure, you know, they started this thing,” he said in the Oval Office about the firings and shutdown. “It’ll be a lot.” The administration offered no specifics on which agencies or how many people would be affected when it announced the layoffs earlier Friday. But at least 4,100 government employees were already laid off. Here is The Hill’s list of agencies affected so far. The Senate voted against the House GOP bill to open...
  • WashPost Editorial Board Now Admits Government ‘Too Big,’ ‘Plenty of Fat to Cut’

    10/09/2025 6:37:10 AM PDT · by JV3MRC · 11 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | 10/9/2025 | Joseph Vazquez
    What in the Benjamin C. Bradlee is going on with The Washington Post editorial board? After shocking the internet by conceding that Obamacare was really just an expensive mess, the newspaper seems to have red-pilled itself hard again. The Post once again tackled the ongoing political standoff between the GOP and Democrats over the Schumer shutdown, surprisingly chastising liberal lawmakers for being stubborn by continuingly voting down the Republican clean continuing resolution (CR). Then came a jaw-dropping admission from the liberal newspaper: “The government is too big. There is plenty of fat to cut.” But the newspaper even took it...
  • Government shutdown threatens survival of one of North America's rarest animals

    10/09/2025 4:37:49 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 35 replies
    SF Gate ^ | October 8, 2025 | By Sam Hill
    As the federal government shutdown drags on into a second week, a critical animal recovery program based in Colorado has ground to a halt, delaying a reintroduction plan that could be crucial to the survival of an endangered species. Fewer than 1,000 black-footed ferrets remain on the planet, including around 280 captive-bred ones currently being housed at the National Black-Footed Ferret Conservation Center in Carr, Colorado. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had planned to reintroduce them at 15 sites across federal, tribal and private lands this fall, according to the conservation organization Defenders of Wildlife. Instead, the creatures are...
  • Sen. Kennedy Predicts How the Schumer Shutdown Will End

    10/08/2025 9:47:29 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 33 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 10/08/2025 | Matt Margolis
    Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) brought his trademark wit to Fox Business on Tuesday, offering his unique take on how the ongoing government shutdown led by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is likely to end. Kennedy, who has a new book out titled How to Test for Stupid: And Why Washington Never Will , didn’t hold back when discussing the Schumer Shutdown with host Larry Kudlow. “They want $1.5 trillion to open government back up, Larry,” Kennedy said, referring to Schumer’s demands. “And that’ll happen when donkeys fly backwards. We’re not gonna give in.” Kennedy explained that the shutdown is purely...
  • Mike Johnson faces growing internal revolt over shutdown

    10/08/2025 2:41:54 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 49 replies
    Axios ^ | October 8, 2025 | Kate Santaliz , Andrew Solender
    The longer the government stays shut down, the shorter House Republicans' patience seems to be getting with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). Why it matters: Johnson's decision to keep his chamber on an indefinite break in the middle of a government shutdown isn't sitting well with some in his conference — and that could put pressure on the speaker to change course. From frustration over the stalled vote on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files, to questions about whether — as Johnson argues — the chamber really has no business to attend to in Washington, GOP lawmakers are beginning to get antsy....
  • Republicans face pressure to consider Democrats’ health-care demands as shutdown drags on

    10/08/2025 7:05:19 AM PDT · by Twotone · 50 replies
    CNBC ^ | October 7, 2025 | Erin Doherty
    Sen. Susan Collins is reportedly shopping around a potential off-ramp to the government shutdown that has paralyzed Washington, but the Maine Republican is not ready to give in on the primary demand by her Democratic colleagues. Collins has been circulating a “discussion draft” of a proposal that would include GOP pledges on a deal related to enhanced Obamacare tax credits, Punchbowl News reported. But Collins is insisting that any extension of the Affordable Care Act subsidies should be negotiated after Congress passes a funding resolution that would allow the government to reopen. Collins told reporters Monday that she has a...