Government Shutdown

House Speaker Mike Johnson says that he’s ‘hoping and praying’ that there are enough Democrats in the Senate willing to break ranks and ‘do the right thing’.

But apparently there’s an actual plan in place, and it’s gaining steam.

Reports are now indicating that a group of rogue Democrats are willing to work behind Chuck Schumer’s back to help Republicans end the government shutdown…

Here’s a clip of Speaker Johnson confirming that change of approach:

Speaker Johnson was apparently referring to a very specific group of Democrats in the US Senate.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer has a real problem. People are realizing that the extended government shutdown is his own deliberate, cynical strategy.

The Democrats and the propaganda media desperately want Americans to blame President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans for the shutdown. But the facts are simply in their way. The House Republicans did their job on Sept. 19.

They passed a clean budget resolution to keep the government open without increasing spending. There were no new policy issues. There were no so-called poison pills to cost Democratic votes. There was no clever maneuvering. It was a simple, clean resolution – specifically designed to avoid drama and fund the federal government while the Congress and the President negotiate next year’s funding.

Further, this was a normal move. Simple, clean continuing resolutions have been used by Democratic-and Republican-led Congresses and presidents for many years.

SNAP food benefits for around 42 million Americans could resume as early as Wednesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday morning, after two federal judges ordered the Trump administration to use emergency funds during the government shutdown. The action follows rulings on Friday by federal judges in Massachusetts and Rhode Island directing the administration to draw on emergency resources to continue Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programme payments. Judge Jack McConnell of Rhode Island also instructed that the funds be provided “as soon as possible,” CNBC reported. Boston Judge Indira Talwani gave the administration until Monday to inform her whether it will authorise at least reduced SNAP benefits for November. The aid was originally set to be cut off on November 1.

Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) has declared that his fellow Democrats should “own the shutdown” as the government closure enters its second month.

Fetterman argues that the Democrats must acknowledge that the party bears responsibility for the ongoing stalemate that has left millions of Americans without federal food assistance.

During an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Jake Tapper, Fetterman was asked about the lapse of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on November 1.

The lapse cut off benefits for roughly 42 million Americans, including two million Pennsylvanians.

Tapper framed the issue as a political standoff between the White House and the Trump administration, asking Fetterman who he believed was to blame.

International Brotherhood of Teamsters Union President Sean O’Brien stood with Trump administration officials this week to call on Democrats to end the government shutdown for the sake of the American people.

Tensions are boiling online as SNAP beneficiaries vent frustration on social media over the Democrats’ ongoing government shutdown, warning they could lose grocery benefits starting November 1.

Some are even threatening to loot stores if payments don’t arrive on time.

“It is the taxpayer’s responsibility to take care of my kids,” one emotional mother declared in a viral video.

“It is the taxpayer’s job to pay for my kids to eat and for my kids to be taken care of.”

The woman also complained that none of her TikTok followers had sent her money and vowed to block anyone who watched her content without sending cash.

As usual, I don’t make the news — I just report it.

And everything I just typed in that headline is 100% accurate.

Another black woman has just melted down, going on a vile rant and issuing a threat to President Trump over her EBT food stamps.

Sick stuff!

Also, how hilarious is it that she’s complaining about not getting her food stamps, meanwhile she’s chewing on some food the whole time she’s  shooting this video!

NASTY!

Chew and swallow your food before you record a video!

Also, can I make a few other suggestions?

If you’re so hard up for money, may I suggest shifting the money you spend on hair dye and fake eye-lashes into the FOOD budget?

Just an idea.

We can also shut down the jewelry budget and take off and sell that disgusting nose ring, and put that money into the food budget.

I think I could have your problem fixed real quick!

Oh, and here’s another idea….instead of sitting at home on your ass posting these videos to TikTok all day long, how about you get a JOB and use the salary from that job for the food budget?

Hey, I’m pretty good at this!  Turns out this is not hard at all!

But instead of doing any of those things, this woman chose to record a video issuing a threat to President Trump.

Watch here:

TRANSCRIPT (in case you can’t understand all the ghetto-speak amidst all the food chewing):

Let me tell you something.

Trump got about 2.5 seconds to turn these motherfucking stamps back on or it’s gonna be a jet too motherfucking holiday all up and through Walmart.

And I ain’t fucking playing.

‘Cause let me tell you something.

You got us fucked up — you got us fucked up if you think we not gonna go in these stores and do what the fuck we were already doing.

We were already doing it, but see now we’re telling y’all, okay — we were already telling y’all, but see now we don’t give a fuck; we already didn’t give a fuck.

President Donald Trump says it is time for the Senate to end its 60-vote requirement to pass substantive legislation so that the government shutdown can end.

“BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT THE DEMOCRATS HAVE GONE STONE COLD ‘CRAZY,’ THE CHOICE IS CLEAR — INITIATE THE ‘NUCLEAR OPTION,’ GET RID OF THE FILIBUSTER AND, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump wrote Thursday night in a post on Truth Social.

The federal government has largely been shut down since Oct. 1 after Senate Democrats declined to approve a House-passed bill to keep it running through mid-November.

The Washington Post editorial board blasted Senate Democrats on Wednesday for “holding the government hostage” in a month-long shutdown aimed at forcing an extension of costly Obamacare subsidies.

The board is warning that the Democrats’ obstruction could soon leave millions of Americans without food assistance.

“The right answer is to reopen the government with a clean funding bill, ideally for a full year, to get food stamps flowing and federal workers back in the office, and then have a debate about ACA subsidies,” the Post editorial said.

“Democrats openly acknowledge that they refuse to do this because it would mean giving up their leverage.

“If they persist, it could mean families start to go hungry.”

The day before the start of the latest shutdown drama, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries declared that Republicans were “lying” about the Democrats’ hostage demands to turn the lights back on. No, the left’s spending plan would not pay for health care for illegal immigrants, the New York Democrat said. Doing so would require a change in federal law that bars such a thing, echoed Jeffries’ pals in corporate media.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) faced an unlikely foe as he tried to plant the seeds of the Democrats’ narrative about the Schumer shutdown: CNN. Of all people, host Dana Bash blew up Jeffries’s “GOP shut down the government’ line, which knocked the New York liberal off course in comical fashion.

Bash rightly noted that Democrats rejected 14 motions to reopen the government:

Hakeem Jeffries was left momentarily stunned on CNN after host Dana Bash fact-checked his claim in real time that Republicans “shut down” the government.

The House Minority Leader wasn’t expecting the pushback and it showed.

He got heated.

JEFFRIES: “Donald Trump and… pic.twitter.com/DnSy3Gywmc

— Overton (@overton_news) November 5, 2025

JEFFRIES: “Donald Trump and Republicans shut the government and refused to reopen it. Donald Trump has spent the last 35 days, more time on the golf course, more time talking to Hamas and more time talking to the Chinese Communist Party than to Democrats on Capitol Hill, who represent half the country.”

As the government shut down continued on Wednesday,  with essential government employees working without pay for the 16th straight work day, some Democrat lawmakers were not bashful about explaining their strategy.

“Shutdowns are terrible and of course there will be, you know, families that will suffer,” acknowledged Rep. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.), the House Minority Whip, during an interview, Wednesday.  “We take that responsibility very seriously but it is one of the few leverage times we have.”

President Trump’s “rapid response” team responded on X: “These people are SICK!”

Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) has also made clear that causing pain and suffering is a large part of the Democrats’ shutdown strategy.

“They [Republicans] have had months to negotiate,” Sanders said in a recent interview. “You reopen the government and we lose our leverage,” he added. “There has to be an agreement right now—That’s what this whole shutdown is about.”

President Donald Trump’s administration is preparing to cut thousands of employees from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as the longest government shutdown in history continues with no end in sight.

The move is in accordance with Trump’s promise to cut federal workers if a government shutdown ensued, Breitbart reported.

The federal government has been shut down since October 1 as the Democrats continue to block Republican deals that would have kept the government open through the end of the year.

That’s a video of Ted Cruz from 2013 warning of what was going to happen to healthcare under ObamaCare. It’s very important to point out that everything conservative said was going to happen to healthcare costs after Democrats rammed through ObamaCare has, in fact, happened.

Would it have been nice if conservatives did something about it at any point in the twelve years since this video? Sure. But that’s not the world we live in, and you have to fight your battles with the Republican Party you have and not necessarily the Republican Party you need.

Where we are now is the Democrat Party, after using the pandemic to blow up healthcare in America worse than they did with ObamaCare, is holding the government hostage unless Republicans vote to renew the “temporary” taxpayer-funded ObamaCare subsidies. To guilt the GOP into doing this, Democrats are rolling out sob stories. Of boomers. Who retired early. And want taxpayers to pay for their health insurance. While those taxpayers can barely afford their own health care. Because Democrats and ObamaCare have caused costs to skyrocket.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday delivered a blistering assessment of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), declaring that the longtime Democrat leader is “mentally gone.”

Trump argues that Schumer has been “beat up by young radical lunatics” who now control his party.

Speaking during an interview, Trump was asked whether the Democratic Party now belongs more to far-left New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani than to establishment figures like Schumer or House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY).

“Probably is,” Trump replied.

As of 10:00 a.m., Wednesday morning, Sen. Merkley was still speaking on the Senate floor.

Several Democratic Senators praised the speech, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and Senators Andy Kim of New Jersey, Tina Smith of Minnesota, and Chris Van Hollenof Maryland.

White House Spokeswoman Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson told Fox News Digital, “Democrats will do anything except vote to open the government. A useless overnight floor speech that no one watched will do nothing to help the millions of Americans who are missing paychecks, losing out on important benefits, or being otherwise harmed by the Democrat’s decision to shut down the government over free health care for illegal aliens.”