Quote of the Day- Government Shutdown
By DB
@dgobucks226 (36987)
October 26, 2025 10:22am CST
Quote from a top Democratic House leader, Mrs. Kathryn Clark. "Of course, there will be families that are going to suffer... but it is one of the few leverage times we have."
Is playing politics with people's lives by shutting down the government really your goal of Mrs. Clark? Democrat Minority Senate Leader Chuck Schumer also chimed in insisting on “guarantees” of increased spending for healthcare or the Democrats will not vote to open up the government.
Majority House Leader Mike Johnson is agreeable to negotiations but only when the government is up and running again. He does not like Republicans being "extorted" for more federal spending, throwing more money at a failing government health program (Obamacare). Also, U.S. Citizens are currently paying (subsidizing) the healthcare of illegals through being taxed. With prices for goods still high this is not a time for shutting down the government and withholding paychecks to necessary federal workers.
Yep, the party of compassion and the working class. I guess only when it comes to non-citizens, not real ones. 
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@RasmaSandra (90248)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
2h
Always thought they also "shut the country" at this time no trading no nothing,
@porwest (110045)
• United States
7h
There are two key parts to this that people simply are refusing to understand as it applies to the rolling back of cuts and that is that 20 million people were put onto Medicaid who otherwise would not qualify when covid was happening, and we want to cut funding because those 20 million extra people don't need to be funded and SHOULD NOT be in the program, AND sending more money to the states WHILE still covering 20 million people that WON'T receive benefits leaves it open to states to redirect that funding to illegals...
Which IS the issue here. lol
The cuts don't TAKE AWAY healthcare options. It ENSURES it is available in the system for those who NEED it.
When we added funds, it was to account for people forced to be unemployed during covid who also potentially lost healthcare coverage. The funding is no longer needed, and we simply want to cut the funding. The Democrats want the money so that it can used in ways it was never intended to be used.
Of COURSE they aren't framing it that way.
