GOP Obsessed With Shutting Down Government - 9/30/25
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Today you’ll read about how the GOP is so obsessed with denying people health care that they’ll shut down the government; Netanyahu’s agreement to Trump’s Gaza plan; and Stephen Miller’s insidious influence.
THE BIG NEWS
GOP Obsessed With Shutting Down Government to Stop You From Seeing a Doctor
The government will probably shut down tomorrow because Trump and his acolytes are so obsessed with denying people health care that they won’t negotiate with Democrats, the NYT and Politico reported last night. Democrats’ proposed budget would extend Affordable Care Act subsidies and reverse Trump’s cuts to Medicaid, but the GOP is refusing to prioritize Americans’ health. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries met with Trump in the Oval Office yesterday and left with no deal. The shutdown deadline is midnight.
Trump and his demolition demons are, predictably, blaming Democrats for everything, as if the GOP is not responsible for what already amounts to a government shutdown by gutting federal programs and illegally firing thousands of federal workers, a point David Dayen and I made in TAP today. James David Vance, the fake povvo who is the vice president, said, “You don’t use your policy disagreements as leverage,” which, yes you do. Who did he get that little pearl of wisdom from? His childhood golf coach? Republicans are also spreading lies about how Democrats want to shut down the government to give free health care to undocumented people.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said senators will vote today on a continuing resolution that the House already passed, which would fund the government until Nov. 21. Politico reported that its passage would give lawmakers “more time to negotiate full-year appropriations bills.” But it could also just postpone this same situation by a month. Anyway, that is how much Republicans want to punish you for, idk, existing in a human body that periodically gets sick and needs medicine and care. Meanwhile, they routinely give themselves raises and nice health benefits, because they believe they are more important than us.