Government Shutdown - September, 2025 Editiion

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Democrats are clowns.🤡

I thought Trump had the biggest mandate in the entire history of the United States? Now Democrats can just send a couple elderly senators to claim they need some healthcare funding and suddenly Republicans can't pass a budget?

[Anonymous]

This is an interesting gambit by the Republicans.

They have the power to change the rules and vote in their own budget but they don’t.

They clearly want a shutdown- why? To illegally fire more feds? Blame Democrats?

I would say this is too stupid of a trap for the democrats but we all know that’s not true.

In any event I’m fine with being fired. This job is getting stupid.

[Anonymous]

The rule of law ended Jan 20.

All that matters is who has the passwords at the Treasury. That's what the first agency Trump and Musk attacked was OMB.

[Anonymous]

I know this is a very DC insider focused thread but as someone who is not in DC, I can tell you most of us dont care at ALL if the government shuts down. I feel like the government shutting down has almost zero downside for the underdog party. The vast majority of Americans will not see immediate job risk issues or immediate ramifications. Sure, it's not great for the TSA but they're not going to find a new career in a week. The dems should shut it down for however long they want. MAGA is psychotic. This is probably the most beige pushback you could give in the circs so they should feel zero pressure to back down until they have to for whatever political reason comes up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know this is a very DC insider focused thread but as someone who is not in DC, I can tell you most of us dont care at ALL if the government shuts down. I feel like the government shutting down has almost zero downside for the underdog party. The vast majority of Americans will not see immediate job risk issues or immediate ramifications. Sure, it's not great for the TSA but they're not going to find a new career in a week. The dems should shut it down for however long they want. MAGA is psychotic. This is probably the most beige pushback you could give in the circs so they should feel zero pressure to back down until they have to for whatever political reason comes up.

This is one of the dumber posts I've ever read on DCUM.

Many Americans will feel the pain of the government shut down very soon.
This will come back to haunt the GOP.
Yeah, trump may fire lots of government workers, but most will be rehired.
Why is Trump so gung-ho to keep the government open? He knows it's going to kill the GOP if it goes on for a long time.
Finally, the Democrats are standing up and fighting, a bit.
We need a lot more of this.

[Anonymous]

happy shutdown!

[Anonymous]

just think, if Democrats had advocated for policies US voters want, none of this would be happening.

but Democrats preferred importing 8,000,000 illegal aliens. to take care of their special snowflakes, and mow their lawns.

next election maybe Democrats should focus on policies US voters want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:just think, if Democrats had advocated for policies US voters want, none of this would be happening.

but Democrats preferred importing 8,000,000 illegal aliens. to take care of their special snowflakes, and mow their lawns.

next election maybe Democrats should focus on policies US voters want.

just think, if Republicans had not voted for Trump, none of this would be happening.

but Republicans preferred electing a cult-leaden felon who wanted to be worshipped and to squeeze more money into his coffers while bleeding the middle and lower class dry.

next election maybe Republicans will recognize they’ve been conned.

There, I fixed it for you.

[Anonymous]

As long as ICE is still getting paid I don’t see the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is an interesting gambit by the Republicans.

They have the power to change the rules and vote in their own budget but they don’t.

They clearly want a shutdown- why? To illegally fire more feds? Blame Democrats?

I would say this is too stupid of a trap for the democrats but we all know that’s not true.

In any event I’m fine with being fired. This job is getting stupid.

Both, IMO. And unfortunately the Dems have been really terrible at the messaging game so it could work.

[Anonymous]

There should be laws that 1) dont permit recess when they haven't passed a budget, and 2) fine members of congress every day the gov is shutdown..they should all be locked in a room until they figure it out..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As long as ICE is still getting paid I don’t see the problem.

They will not be paid. The payroll processing employees are furloughed and possibly fired by Vought.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As long as ICE is still getting paid I don’t see the problem.

They will not be paid. The payroll processing employees are furloughed and possibly fired by Vought.

I’m told there will be exceptions for ICE and employees who support ICE, to keep up morale and allow their work to continue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As long as ICE is still getting paid I don’t see the problem.

They will not be paid. The payroll processing employees are furloughed and possibly fired by Vought.

I’m told there will be exceptions for ICE and employees who support ICE, to keep up morale and allow their work to continue.

You are told

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As long as ICE is still getting paid I don’t see the problem.