18th sequential daily thread covering The 2025 Democrat Shutdown of the United States GovernmentDay 18 Updates:- The Democrat Shutdown has now resulted in SNAP benefits in PA being paused https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/pennsylvania-snap-benefits-government-shutdown/- The Democrat Shutdown has enabled Trump's plans to reduce the size of the government and layoff federal employees: https://www.axios.com/2025/10/18/government-shutdown-trump-federal-workers- the house will be out of session next week: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-updates/government-shutdown-live-updates/?id=126242587- Trump believes that most federal layoffs are not blocked by court order: https://www.npr.org/2025/10/17/nx-s1-5577691/layoffs-rifs-government-shutdown-trumpThe issue is caused by Democrats. What did they do? They passed COVID emergency corporate subsidies to health insurance companies during COVID, and set them to expire on Jan 1, 2026. Now that these subsidies are expiring as planned, they are angry and shutting down the government.
Reminder:The Republicans created this situation when they used the nuclear option to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill, which created the CR at the center of the current shutdown, with a simple majority of 51, meaning not even all Republican Senators voted in favor of it. They did this knowing it would lead to an eventual deadline where they would either need Democrat votes or to use the nuclear option to avoid a shutdown.Republicans are refusing to use the nuclear option which would allow them to end the shutdown right now.Republicans are refusing to make any concessions at all to Democrats to entice them to vote for the CR the Republicans are forcing through.The Republican Speaker of the House is refusing to call the House into session until the shutdown ends, meaning even if Senate Republicans wanted to make concessions, they can't because they would need to be sent to the House for approval before they could be ratified.Everything I've posted here is objectively true, and the only responses to this will either be personal attacks, deflection, or whataboutism.
>>1449044No one believes your lies BTW.
>>1449047No one believes your lies BTW
Convening Congress would for Johnson to admit the new Dem Congresswoman, giving them the 218th vote to open the Epstein files. That is the only reason for the shutdown.
>>1449054They already have the Epstein files and have seen them. They are a paper tiger for Democrats to electioneer on.I'd imagine it'll happen shortly though.
>>1449047Democrats started all of this because Republicans had to use the nuclear option because Democrats refused to clear Trump's appointees six months into his term for no reason other than voting no.
>>1449054Retard, the shutdown started before the Congress person was supposed to be sworn in. Democrats shut down the government before that was ever a factor. Please update your shill script #313
democrats pooped my pants
Not creating a new thread for this because I'm tired.>https://apnews.com/article/smartmatic-bribery-charges-philippines-97a1c66eaedf769ad0e64a52166be90btl;dr the company suing Rudy Guiliani for his statements about election fraud just got indicted for bribery charges.
The Divided Snakes of America
>>1449044It's a hoax. Just the excuse to cut all those worthless welfare babies off and make them fend for themselves for once. Get a job.
>>1449068>tl;dr the company suing Rudy Guiliani for his statements about election fraud just got indicted for bribery chargesBWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
On the 18th day of the shutdown, my true love said to me 18 Trump's a whining On the 17th day of the shutdown, my true love said to me 17 Trump's a whining On the 16th day of the shutdown, my true love said to me 17 Trump's a whining ,.................On the 1th day of the shutdown, my true love said to me 1Trump's a bragging
>>1449068>>1449080>Company that Trump accused of rigging the election against him "just so happens" to also be accused by federal prosecutors of being totally corrupt and bribed guysCan't wait for another round of "Trump's justice department attempts political retribution but is so fucking inept they can't even file false charges correctly"
>>1449061>Democrats refused to clear Trump's appointees six months into his term for no reason other than voting no.This is actually true and very childish of them. Kinda like what they are doing right now now honestly
>>1449061>for no reasonBecause Trump's appointees are all dangerously unqualified and unsuited for their positions. See Hegseth and RFK.
Embarrassing that a Democrat president could let the government be shut down. Funny, how Trump makes the poor suffer, he didn't rescind the 200 million ballroom or the 1 billion dollar jet refitting, nope, he cut your food stamps in time for Thanksgiving. I wonder if he will hand out turkeys like other mob bosses, tooting his horn the whole time.
>>1449080Is Rudy gonna get his watches back?
>>1449197What in the world are you talking about
>>1449044Why wont Republicans open up the government?
>>1449322Democrats aren't letting them vote. Shrimple as that
>>1449332Democrats don't control that.
>>1449348They aren't filibustering it? I think you need to report this breaking news to literally every us news publication
>>1449044WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH DEMOCRATS!?
>>1449385Politics
