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SHUTDOWN!

Great article. The demtards have slit their own throats and Trump is cutting up the bodies like Dexter.

Trump is using the government shutdown to do something no president has ever done​

Government shutdown continues as federal layoffs begin nationwide​

By Mehek Cooke Fox News
Published October 15, 2025 5:00am EDT


The United States government shutdown drags on, marking a pivotal moment in America’s fiscal and constitutional history. President Donald Trump, the negotiator-in-chief, isn’t blinking. He’s swinging the axe at bloated, Democrat-run bureaucracies that have taken trillions from hardworking Americans for decades.

While Nancy Pelosi and her party claim "chaos" and Trump is turning crisis into clarity — freezing $26 billion in blue-state pork, halting green-energy pet projects and directing departments to prepare reduction-in-force plans as part of a broader review of spending and accountability. Those plans are now in motion: the Office of Management and Budget confirmed that federal layoffs have begun, with cuts underway in Health, Homeland Security and Commerce. Washington calls it chaos. I call it a cleanup — a reckoning long overdue in the deep-state swamp. For the first time in modern history, a shutdown isn’t about stalling — it’s about a president reshaping Washington for the people.

Shutdowns of the past stand in stark contrast to today. Under President Bill Clinton in 1995 and 1996, Washington clashed over how to balance the budget and rein in spending. The government shut down twice for 26 days as parks closed, workers were furloughed and each side blamed the other. It ended with both sides blinking. They struck a compromise that preserved the exact bureaucracy they fought over, and Clinton walked away with higher approval ratings while the deep state remained intact. Even during Trump’s 2018–2019 standoff — the longest in history at 35 days — Washington fell back into the same pattern. The fight over border funding and national security ended in another stalemate, yielding $1.375 billion for 55 miles of fencing, barely funding the wall and no reform to the bloated machine.


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For decades, Washington’s playbook during shutdowns has been the same: panic, finger-pointing and a "compromise" that keeps the bureaucracy alive. Washington promoted the lie that when the money stops, the people lose. Trump 2.0 flips the script to show when the right programs are protected and waste is halted, we win. From day one, the administration withheld $26 billion in earmarks for blue-state pet projects, windmills in California, green-energy programs and transit boondoggles in New York, while signaling layoffs in what Trump calls "Democrat agencies."

The administration also ordered federal agencies to prepare reduction-in-force plans, signaling that Trump is willing to fire bureaucrats who treat tax dollars as entitlements. No past president has dared to do that. The message is clear: you are neither entitled to nor guaranteed a job if your mission isn’t constitutional. He gave Democrats every opportunity to come to the table and keep the government working for the people. They refused and now those plans are being executed. "The RIFs have begun," OMB Director Russ Vought confirmed on X that layoffs are officially underway.

Trump directs Hegseth to use 'all available funds' to pay U.S. troops amid shutdownVideo
Trump has already shown he isn’t afraid to act. Earlier this year, he dismissed inspectors general, ordered layoffs at ideological agencies like the National Endowment for the Humanities — which has poured taxpayer dollars into DEI vanity programs — and reduced staff at the EPA and NOAA long before the shutdown began.

Trump is executing a shutdown plan as an unprecedented audit — one no president has ever attempted. Legal scholars now debate the constitutionality of leveraging a funding lapse for structural reform. For the first time, a president is using a shutdown as a tool for permanent restructuring rather than a negotiation tactic, treating it as a wide-scale audit to align Washington’s priorities with taxpayers rather than its own self-interest.

The constitutional implications are profound. Under the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, presidents may defer spending when it isn’t necessary for the immediate execution of the law. Trump is using this authority to pause appropriations to ideological programs that are non-essential.

The government shutdown is Sen. Schumer’s, says Rep. Marlin StutzmanVideo

Critics argue this is an unconstitutional "end run" around Congress’s power of the purse. Yet the Constitution’s Article II Take Care Clause vests the president with discretion to "faithfully execute" the laws responsibly — not rubber-stamp wasteful spending. Trump is posing the question: can the executive branch use a shutdown to impose fiscal restraint when Congress refuses to?

And there is precedent — thin, but real — tilting in his favor. On September 26, 2025, the Supreme Court granted the administration a stay allowing Trump to withhold nearly $4 billion in foreign aid pending appeal in Department of State v. AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition. The 6–3 order, with liberal justices dissenting, signaled a willingness to let the executive branch exercise broad discretion over deferred funds. While not a final ruling, it gives Trump clear constitutional footing — proof that his deferral strategy is grounded in precedent.

Democrats call this shutdown coercion, but Trump is using Washington’s dysfunction as a weapon for reform. If Republicans stand firm and refuse to blink, this will mark the beginning of a lean, accountable government that serves Americans rather than the swamp. America is ready for a reckoning. Trump is rebuilding government for the people who built this country.
 
While the shutdown is on, add back only those govt workers actually needed; this should be handled as an opportunity to clarify those employees and departments actually needed for the benefit of the people.
 
I have to admit that I love Trump's cutting out idiotic programs, but am a bit bummed that more has not been cut. I truly expected quite a bit more by now.

Please, Mr. President, don't let any woke or ponzi scheme programs survive this week.
 
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15 days in and has anyone here been affected?
We were trying to get credit insurance on our distributor in India to change their payment terms. The Export-Import bank is part of the Fed and they closed before issuing approval. Not a big deal, but that's the only thing I can think of.
 
15 days in and has anyone here been affected?
We are due for our annual department of health and life safety surveys. They are only doing immediate harm visits currently so our date is being pushed back. This is not a bad thing in my opinion.
 
15 days in and has anyone here been affected?

Oh man, I was attacked by Orcs today. We've had to barricade our house. The rest of my neighbors have been overrun. Well,all but the retired Navy pilot across the street.


Who knew that closing the money sucking black hole would open a gate to a fantasy dimension.

Thankfully I have plenty of ammo. We can hold out for another week or so,then may have to make a run for it.
 
I’m still working but not getting paid and that kinda sucks. I’ll get back pay, but that doesn’t help me now. Our agency is “excepted,” meaning we will get back pay, but those that are furloughed and not working are rumored to not receive back pay. Back pay is the law, codified in 2019, so I’m not sure how they can say this group or that group is not getting back pay, but I also do not work at OMB or OPM, so I don’t know. I have a decent amount in my savings to keep me afloat, but it isn’t going to last forever. So yeah, the shutdown is affecting me.
 
By what?!?
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Where?
 
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Government Shutdown - Day 15

I have left my survival shelter briefly to provide this needed update. In reading recent comments, I see a distinct lack of panic over the apocalyptic government shutdown. Let me tell you ... it's getting ugly out there!

I left the compound to get a haircut. The ignorant public was going about their business as if nothing was amiss. Yeah, okay, roads are still open, traffic signals working, electricity is fine, water is being delivered unhindered, businesses are still open, people are working, people are shopping, schools are still open, parks are open. Man, don't we miss the days of Covid shutdown? Now THAT was a shutdown.

So how bad is it out there?? I passed a group of people glorifying human sacrifice! No joke, they were going on and on about how great it is to kill babies, even babies in the womb! MY GOD!!

Okay, that was apparently a pro-choice rally but still, pretty horrifying. This shutdown is going to cripple America - just you wait!
 
motherpfucker.

Jimmy aint be ded from the Shutdown yet?

what a terrible calamity.
 
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