Democrats will pay dearly. They are holding the country hostage for COVID pork and healthcare for illegals.

Democrats choose criminal aliens over American citizens again.

Democratic congressional leadership refused to support the GOP measure unless provisions extending Covid health care insurance subsidies and reinstating billions of dollars in funding for foreign aid and other programs cut by Trump were included.

This is not the first government shutdown. Government shutdowns expose how little we need most nonessential government services.

Democrats are hoping that Americans will blame Donald Trump for whatever bad things can be attributed to the federal government shutting down nonessential functions until a deal gets passed.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) think they have the Republicans beat. They think they can hurt Trump. You can’t know when your approval ratings are worse than Trump’s and the GOP’s. You can’t when you have no charismatic leaders. You can’t tell when your agenda action items aren’t popular. Shutting down the government over illegal alien health care is a loser. And Republicans shouldn’t be afraid of the polling. To start, no one cares—the only people directly impacted are government workers. Mark Mitchell had a lengthy thread about shutdowns and polling impacts—Republicans should hold the line at all costs (Townhall).

Mitchell’s polling indicates that Trump will come out of the conflict almost unscathed, but in the meantime, he will be empowered to do many things he otherwise might not be.  You can follow his explanation here.

This is a wonderful opportunity to permanently eliminating the jobs of the bloated government positions.

Sun Tzu, ancient Chinese military strategist: “In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.”

US government shuts down after Senate Democrats fail to support stopgap funding bill

By Victor Nava, NY Post, Oct. 1, 2025:

The federal government partially shut down at midnight Wednesday, hours after all but three Senate Democrats voted down a short-term funding bill. The measure fell five votes short of passing.

The shutdown is the first since December 2018, which saw non-essential government operations cease and tens of thousands of federal employees furloughed or forced to work without pay for 35 days until lawmakers agreed on a stopgap funding measure.

White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought notified federal department and agency heads shortly after Tuesday’s failed Senate vote to keep the government funded to begin preparations for a shutdown.

Two Democrats, Sens. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania and Catherine Cortez Mastro of Nevada, voted for the measure. Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), who generally caucuses with the Democrats, also voted for it. The bill needed five more Democrats to support it in order to pass.

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President Trump posted an inside look into the government shutdown negotiation meetings showing Trump 2028 hats.
The US government partially shut down at midnight Wednesday. Christopher Sadowski

“[A]ffected agencies should now execute their plans for an orderly shutdown,” Vought wrote in a memo.

A House-passed bill — backed by virtually all Senate Republicans and President Trump — to keep the government open with funding at current levels until Nov. 21 failed to clear the 60-vote legislative filibuster in the upper chamber by five votes.

In his memo, Vought noted that it’s “unclear how long Democrats will maintain their untenable posture, making the duration of the shutdown difficult to predict.”
Hakeem Jeffries gestures while speaking, with Chuck Schumer seated across from him and a “Trump 2028” hat on the table. 11
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) during their failed negotiation meetings to avoid a government shutdown. @realDonaldTrump/TruthSocial

Democratic congressional leadership refused to support the GOP measure unless provisions extending pandemic-era health care insurance subsidies and reinstating billions of dollars in funding for foreign aid and other programs cut by Trump were included.

The Senate adjourned shortly after the failed vote.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) said lawmakers would try again Wednesday morning.

“I am hoping there are enough reasonable Democrats over there,” Thune said during an appearance on Fox News. “We picked up three tonight … we’re going to vote on it again tomorrow.”

“Hopefully, we’re going to pick up some more and eventually, we’ll get enough to pass this thing and keep the government open.”
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President Trump posted an AI video of Hakeem Jeffries after the government shutdown negotiations meeting at the White House. @realDonaldTrump/TruthSocial

Thune told “Jesse Watters Primetime” that he expects Senate Democrats “are going to start cracking because they realize this is a losing hand.”

A New York Times/Siena poll found that 65% of registered voters opposed a government shutdown “even if [Democrats’] demands are not met.”

Among registered Democrats, 43% were against shutting down the government even if the party is unable to win any concessions from Republicans.

Fifty-nine percent of independent voters also opposed a shutdown under any circumstances, as well as 92% of Republicans.

Trump, who met with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) on Monday to discuss the looming shutdown, posted several photographs of the meeting on Truth Social as the clock ticked after the failed vote.

The images show the Democratic leaders in the Oval Office, with a couple of “Trump 2028” hats sitting in front of them on Trump’s desk.

The president also posted another mocking, digitally altered video clip of Jeffries wearing a sombrero, as a mariachi band of Trumps serenaded the Brooklyn Democrat.

Trump and Republicans have accused Democrats of wanting to include “free health care for illegal aliens” in legislation to keep the government open, a claim Democratic leaders have denied.

Earlier Tuesday, the president also teased “irreversible” actions that could be taken, including federal employee layoffs, when the government is shut down.

“We can do things during the shutdown that are irreversible that are bad for them and irreversible by them, like cutting vast numbers of people out, cutting things that they like, cutting programs that they like,” Trump told reporters, referring to Democrats.

Vought instructed federal agencies last week to prepare to permanently dismiss employees in non-essential roles if there’s a shutdown.

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