So is the US Government shutting down tomorrow night?
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Wow that’s awesome Smitty. I bet those comments turned you on big time. Yyz probably shot his load all over the computer listening to that. Or he probably used his little blankie that he covered up with on the couch at the MadJack golf outing. Might have to ask him which way he decided to go out.
He made you look like a dope, lol. Love how you have YYZ Derangement Syndrome. You just can’t stop thinking of him.
Yep he follows me to the General Discussion forum but I’m following him. Suppose to not berate or make fun on people in other forums only in the Political Forum can you do that. But it’s yyz so I guess he gets a pass. But I’m up for it. Might be a few threads locked unless kick starts moderating that kind of stuff. You a clown.
Notice how the LIBERAL Democrat writer, OMITED the political party that's RESPONSIBLE for the Government Shutdown.
Published Sat, Oct 4 202510:00 AM EDT
Natalie Wu@_nataliewu_
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On Tuesday, Willie Price woke up at 3 a.m. to deliver newspapers. At 6:30 a.m., she clocked into her food service job, working the cash register and making coffee, in a cafeteria at the Library of Congress on Capitol Hill.
Then, on Wednesday, the government shut down.
Price, who says she makes about 16 cents per newspaper she delivers and $25 an hour from her food service job, says she hasn’t worked since Tuesday. If the shutdown continues, she won’t be able to pay her bills this month.
“I don’t even know what to do,” the 65-year-old, who says she lives paycheck to paycheck, tells CNBC Make It. “I could lose the house. I could lose my car. I could lose everything.”
Price is one of many hourly contractors who work directly for the government or through third-party contractors who will not be paid during the shutdown period. Some federal employees are guaranteed back pay once the shutdown ends, but contractors are not.
Shutdowns have typically lasted about four days. The most recent one in 2018 was the longest on record, lasting more than a month. On Friday afternoon, the Senate failed to pass either of the funding bills that would have ended the three-day government shutdown. The shutdown is now expected to extend at least through Monday, Oct. 6.
A prolonged shutdown could put an immense amount of financial strain on low-wage workers, many of whom already live paycheck to paycheck, said Randy Erwin, president of the National Federation of Federal Employees, a union that represents 110,000 federal workers nationwide.
“I’m just in limbo right now,” Murray says. “It’s just funny how people think they can play with people’s livelihoods. I do all the right things. I go to work.”
Willie Price (L) and Audrey Murray (R) are contract workers who will not receive paychecks during the government shutdown.
Christina Locopo | CNBC Make It (Photos courtesy of: Willie Price and Audrey Murray)
A single mother to two teenage sons and a full-time caregiver for her 12-year-old granddaughter, Murray says it took her two years to pay off the money she borrowed from her relatives during the last government shutdown in 2018.
Every month, she makes a $2,200 mortgage payment and spends up to $600 on groceries for her family, she says, plus costs for utilities and child care. She’s already thinking about how she might have to ask her children to ration their food.
“How am I going to feed my children and pay my bills?” Murray says. “I need to keep my electric on. I have to keep my gas on.”
Low-wage workers are the ones who will bear the brunt of the government shutdown, Manny Pasterich, president of 32BJ SEIU, a union that represents 2,400 federally contracted security officers, office cleaners and food service workers, said in a Tuesday statement.
“Not only do 32BJ members earn less than direct federal employees, but they also would be ineligible to receive backpay,” Pasterich said. “A government shutdown would turn their lives upside down, forcing many to risk eviction, have their utilities turned off and leave them unable to feed themselves and their families.”
At the Smithsonian, Murray says “everyone” is worried about how the shutdown will affect their lives. In the past few days, she’s seen many of her coworkers cry on the job from the stress, she says.
“It’s so sad to see everybody sad,” she says. “People don’t know how they’re going to pay their bills. People don’t know how they’re going to put food on the table.”
65-year-old furloughed by government shutdown: ‘I could lose the house. I could lose my car. I could lose everything’
Published Sat, Oct 4 202510:00 AM EDT
Natalie Wu@_nataliewu_
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On Tuesday, Willie Price woke up at 3 a.m. to deliver newspapers. At 6:30 a.m., she clocked into her food service job, working the cash register and making coffee, in a cafeteria at the Library of Congress on Capitol Hill.
Then, on Wednesday, the government shut down.
Price, who says she makes about 16 cents per newspaper she delivers and $25 an hour from her food service job, says she hasn’t worked since Tuesday. If the shutdown continues, she won’t be able to pay her bills this month.
“I don’t even know what to do,” the 65-year-old, who says she lives paycheck to paycheck, tells CNBC Make It. “I could lose the house. I could lose my car. I could lose everything.”
Price is one of many hourly contractors who work directly for the government or through third-party contractors who will not be paid during the shutdown period. Some federal employees are guaranteed back pay once the shutdown ends, but contractors are not.
Shutdowns have typically lasted about four days. The most recent one in 2018 was the longest on record, lasting more than a month. On Friday afternoon, the Senate failed to pass either of the funding bills that would have ended the three-day government shutdown. The shutdown is now expected to extend at least through Monday, Oct. 6.
A prolonged shutdown could put an immense amount of financial strain on low-wage workers, many of whom already live paycheck to paycheck, said Randy Erwin, president of the National Federation of Federal Employees, a union that represents 110,000 federal workers nationwide.
‘People think they can play with people’s livelihoods’
Starting Oct. 6, Audrey Murray, a 64-year-old security officer, says she will no longer receive her $20.22-an-hour paycheck from her job at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. While she’s not expecting to be furloughed from her second job at the State Department, she says the income from that job alone will not cover her bills for the month.“I’m just in limbo right now,” Murray says. “It’s just funny how people think they can play with people’s livelihoods. I do all the right things. I go to work.”
Willie Price (L) and Audrey Murray (R) are contract workers who will not receive paychecks during the government shutdown.
Christina Locopo | CNBC Make It (Photos courtesy of: Willie Price and Audrey Murray)
A single mother to two teenage sons and a full-time caregiver for her 12-year-old granddaughter, Murray says it took her two years to pay off the money she borrowed from her relatives during the last government shutdown in 2018.
Every month, she makes a $2,200 mortgage payment and spends up to $600 on groceries for her family, she says, plus costs for utilities and child care. She’s already thinking about how she might have to ask her children to ration their food.
“How am I going to feed my children and pay my bills?” Murray says. “I need to keep my electric on. I have to keep my gas on.”
Many low-wage workers may not be able to pay their bills
It’s unclear how many workers will be affected in total, but about 750,000 federal government employees could be put on unpaid leave each day of the shutdown, according to the Congressional Budget Office.Low-wage workers are the ones who will bear the brunt of the government shutdown, Manny Pasterich, president of 32BJ SEIU, a union that represents 2,400 federally contracted security officers, office cleaners and food service workers, said in a Tuesday statement.
“Not only do 32BJ members earn less than direct federal employees, but they also would be ineligible to receive backpay,” Pasterich said. “A government shutdown would turn their lives upside down, forcing many to risk eviction, have their utilities turned off and leave them unable to feed themselves and their families.”
At the Smithsonian, Murray says “everyone” is worried about how the shutdown will affect their lives. In the past few days, she’s seen many of her coworkers cry on the job from the stress, she says.
“It’s so sad to see everybody sad,” she says. “People don’t know how they’re going to pay their bills. People don’t know how they’re going to put food on the table.”
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Prime example of DEFLECTION.
Government shutdowns have become normal. This one is not.
Washington Post via MSN ^ | Oct 5, 2025 | Karen Tumulty
Government shutdowns are a familiar autumn rite of dysfunctional government. But this one is different from any that have come before. That makes it a harder test of both sides’ resolve and discipline.
President Donald Trump is reveling in a legally shaky plan to employ the shutdown to punish his enemies — or more accurately, their constituents.
The administration has put a halt on tens of billions of federal dollars that are going to blue states, including roughly $18 billion for New York’s subway and Hudson Tunnel projects. Not coincidentally, those are in the hometown of the Democratic leaders of the U.S. House and Senate.
And instead of furloughing federal employees and giving them back pay when the government reopens, as has happened in past shutdowns, Trump is threatening to fire them and gut entire agencies.
As much as the White House is trying to blame this on Democrats, who have refused to give Republicans the eight votes they need in the Senate to reopen the government, a survey by The Washington Post showed that a large plurality of Americans are holding Trump and the Republicans responsible.
Nearly three-quarters support the Democrats in their central demand that subsidies lowering the cost for health coverage purchased under the Affordable Care Act should be extended, rather than expiring as scheduled at the end of the year.......
In the meantime, he has been gleefully trolling the opposition, spreading deepfake videos that include one portraying Vought as the grim reaper. Another depicts House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York), who is Black, in a mustache and sombrero. The racist imagery promotes a false Republican claim that Democratic lawmakers are trying to force the government to offer full health care benefits to undocumented immigrants.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Government shutdowns have become normal. This one is not.
Washington Post via MSN ^ | Oct 5, 2025 | Karen Tumulty
Government shutdowns are a familiar autumn rite of dysfunctional government. But this one is different from any that have come before. That makes it a harder test of both sides’ resolve and discipline.
President Donald Trump is reveling in a legally shaky plan to employ the shutdown to punish his enemies — or more accurately, their constituents.
The administration has put a halt on tens of billions of federal dollars that are going to blue states, including roughly $18 billion for New York’s subway and Hudson Tunnel projects. Not coincidentally, those are in the hometown of the Democratic leaders of the U.S. House and Senate.
And instead of furloughing federal employees and giving them back pay when the government reopens, as has happened in past shutdowns, Trump is threatening to fire them and gut entire agencies.
As much as the White House is trying to blame this on Democrats, who have refused to give Republicans the eight votes they need in the Senate to reopen the government, a survey by The Washington Post showed that a large plurality of Americans are holding Trump and the Republicans responsible.
Nearly three-quarters support the Democrats in their central demand that subsidies lowering the cost for health coverage purchased under the Affordable Care Act should be extended, rather than expiring as scheduled at the end of the year.......
In the meantime, he has been gleefully trolling the opposition, spreading deepfake videos that include one portraying Vought as the grim reaper. Another depicts House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York), who is Black, in a mustache and sombrero. The racist imagery promotes a false Republican claim that Democratic lawmakers are trying to force the government to offer full health care benefits to undocumented immigrants.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Trump is setting the record for shutdowns. As he once said, it's on the sitting President. The guy doesn't know what he's doing and this is just more evidence.
He doesn't know what he's doing? You are dumber than a box of rocks. It's killing you that he's turned this country around in only 9 months. This country is headed back in the right direction. Of course your senile President fuked it in Joe Sleepy Biden. What a clusterfuk of a President that he was. The worst ever was Biden.
Enjoy the next 3 years plus i know i will..
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