REPORT: Federal shutdown begins as Trump warns Democrats of ‘irreversible’ consequences

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From Fox News: The federal government is officially entering a partial shutdown on Wednesday after the midnight funding deadline passed with Democrats and Republicans failing to agree on a funding bill.

An earlier attempt by Senate Republicans to pass a short-term extension of fiscal year (FY) 2025 government funding levels, called a continuing resolution (CR), was sunk by Democrats who were furious about being sidelined in shutdown negotiations.

The bill, which would have given Congress until Nov. 21 to set FY 2026 funding priorities, passed the House largely along party lines on Sept. 19. The Senate is expected to vote on the same bill again on Wednesday, with more votes to come through the rest of the week and into the weekend until either a deal is struck or Democrats relent.

House Republicans have been away from Washington in order to pressure the Senate to pass their bill. House Democrats, however, returned this week in a bid to paint a contrast between themselves and the GOP.

The report explains that one issue Democrats are pushing for is a CR to extend Obamacare subsidies that were enhanced during the COVID-19 pandemic but were scheduled to expire at the end of 2025.

House Speaker Mike Johnson explained:

“Congressional Democrats and the Mainstream Media are saying that Chuck Schumer’s $1.5 Trillion Dirty CR Counteroffer does not allow illegal aliens to get free healthcare. But IT DOES. Here’s how:

“The Democrat CR would repeal our Working Families Tax Cut policies that eliminated waste, fraud, and abuse from Medicaid—including all our protections against taxpayer-funded health care benefits going to illegals.”

Since President Donald Trump and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) now have wide discretion over what federal services will remain active, the Trump administration could potentially lay off or even fire many federal workers they have been unable to rid of previously.

In a memo earlier this month, Vought warned federal offices to consider plans for mass layoffs in the event of a shutdown.

Trump had warned Democrats may not like this shutdown, saying, “We can do things during the shutdown that are irreversible, that are bad for them and irreversible by them, like cutting vast numbers of people out, cutting things that they like, cutting programs that they like.”

“Well, there it is. Trump admitted himself that he is using Americans as political pawns. He is admitting that he is doing the firing of people. If God forbid it happens, he’s using Americans as pawns,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer fumed.

Schumer tried to turn the tables blaming the shutdown on Republicans and claiming Democrats are willing to “find a bipartisan compromise,” and claimed his plan doesn’t give healthcare to illegal aliens.

“This is a lie. Not a single federal dollar goes to providing health insurance for undocumented immigrants. NOT. ONE. PENNY. Republicans would rather lie and shut down the government down than protect your health care,” he claimed.

At midnight, he fumed, “IT’S MIDNIGHT. That means the Republican shutdown has just begun because they wouldn’t protect Americans’ health care. We’re going to keep fighting for the American people.”

FLASHBACK TO JANUARY 2019:  In the midst of a previous shutdown battle, the late TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk had written:

We should use this government shutdown as a chance to shrink government permanently:

Privatize the TSA
Privatize the FAA air traffic controllers
Abolish the IRS
Remove “non essential” workers

If workers aren’t essential they shouldn’t be working in government in the first place.

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