Government Shutdown - September, 2025 Editiion
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Anonymous
It was Democrats that gave him the opportunity, as they didn't authorize funding after September. |
Anonymous
And we will continue to have the dysfunctional Federal Government we have as long as you short-sighted dupes who fail to get the big picture while dwelling on snapshot in time moments of dysfunction and awfulness. History repeats itself. Learn from it. |
Anonymous
AOC? Please list AOC’s accomplishments in Congress. Tell us how many pieces of legislation she has authored and passed into law while in Congress? Give us examples of how effective she is and her hard work for the American people. Please. I want to like her but can’t find many examples of concrete work she has successfully completed. |
Anonymous
There's this really cool new piece of technology called Google. You can use it to do your own research, if you actually care! But you don't, and you won't, so please stop pretending. |
Anonymous
Trump alone is responsible for Trump's actions. Stop trying to blame the Democrats for everything Trump does. It's illogical. |
Anonymous
Of course. However, he could not have done it if 8 Democrats had voted for the continuing resolution. Hopefully they will continue to balk, and Trump will be able to implement more cuts. Hey, no money! |
Anonymous
Nope Trump just shut down the ICGIE. The Trump administration plans to end funding starting Wednesday for an oversight group that helps inspectors general root out waste, fraud and abuse, marking the latest example of President Donald Trump’s drive to limit federal watchdog activities. The group — called the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency — is the umbrella organization for 72 inspectors general across government. It informed four House and Senate committees on Saturday that it would “cease our statutorily mandated functions and furlough 25 permanent employees” without funding, according to a letter obtained by The Washington Post. The letter said the decision came from the Office of Management and Budget, which has overseen broad staffing cutbacks under Director Russell Vought. CIGIE acts essentially as a watchdog of the watchdogs — providing training, peer reviews and cross-agency oversight work for inspectors general. It also runs oversight.gov, where whistleblowers can disclose wrongdoing and inspector general reports are shared publicly. “We have significant concerns about these impacts, as the shuttering of CIGIE will result in the loss of shared services and cost-efficiencies that have been built up over the last 17 years,” Tammy L. Hull, CIGIE’s acting chair and the inspector general for the U.S. Postal Service, wrote in the letter to Congress. OMB’s decision to cut off funds from the council comes after the Trump administration purged government watchdogs at 19 agencies and then installed partisans to what have traditionally been nonpartisan positions. The dismantling of the group supporting oversight work has sent shock waves through the watchdog community. It remains unclear how the administration will continue some statutorily required programs without CIGIE. OMB spokesman Armen Tooloee criticized inspectors general in a statement to The Post. “Inspectors general are meant to be impartial watchdogs identifying waste and corruption on behalf of the American people,” Tooloee said. “Unfortunately, they have become corrupt, partisan, and in some cases, have lied to the public. The American people will no longer be funding this corruption.” On Monday, Republican Sens. Susan Collins (Maine) and Chuck Grassley (Iowa), chairs of the Appropriations and Judiciary committees, respectively, raised concerns about the impact that defunding the inspectors general group would have on oversight. In a letter to Vought, the senators asked for an explanation and called for him “to promptly reverse course.” MOST IMPORTANTLY: Congress recently provided funding in its budget bill to extend CIGIE’s Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, which oversaw emergency pandemic spending in several agencies, through 2034. Hull said in the congressional letter that OMB’s decision could stymie that work. Vecchione said OMB has legal authority to cut off funding because a portion of the funding that CIGIE receives comes from interagency transfers from inspectors general offices, and the law establishing CIGIE gives OMB’s deputy director for management authority over that spending. They are actively dismantling government functions. |
Anonymous
What do you want people to do right now? Sit on our hands till 2026? Not care what’s happening to are fellow citizens? Not care that Congress is refusing to govern? I honestly don’t get your point. What do you want people to do other than whine with you have both sides suck? |
Anonymous
It’s not the same funding. It allows Trump (Vought) to reallocate it as desired. |
Anonymous
| Schumer should’ve caved like last time. You can’t negotiate with crazy. |
Anonymous
You missed the point, pea-brain. AOC hasn't had much influence in Congress because she is shunned by her colleagues due to her refusal to play nice puppet with the mega-donors and her willingness to call out her colleagues for lining their pockets via what amounts to insider trading. Give me someone with AOC integrity any day over a Trump or Biden. |
Anonymous
Right. She's a Bernie Sanders style radical. Therefore, she's not a great choice if the goal is to get things done. Why would this be different when she is President? |
Anonymous
Depends on what you want to get done. Doing nothing is much better than destroying. |
Anonymous
Her integrity somehow made her a multi millionaire |
Anonymous
Yes! This poster continues to bemoan our government, Biden, Trump, our 2 parties, the age of the candidates, etc, etc., but I’ve yet to hear any suggestions on how to get go forward. |