Deal Reached To End The Government Shutdown

[Oompa Loompa]

It's two extreme extremes that have no interest in working with each other.

Yes. One extreme says let's reopen the government as is and talk about the issues later. The the other extreme says,"Heck no! I will watch the world burn before I dont get what I want!" As you have said, two extreme extremes.

 

[Oompa Loompa]

I would support eliminating government shutdowns period. Force the Congress to pass a real, annual budget, on time.

Welcome to MAGA.

 

[chevyontheriver]

I would support eliminating government shutdowns period. Force the Congress to pass a real, annual budget, on time.

There is no great way to DO that, though I suspect the Soviets always had timely budgets. I do favor new parties to replace the train wrecks we have, but that’s up to voters who rather like their particular train wreck to oppose the opposite brand train wreck.

 

[wing2000]

There is no great way to DO that, though I suspect the Soviets always had timely budgets. I do favor new parties to replace the train wrecks we have, but that’s up to voters who rather like their particular train wreck to oppose the opposite brand train wreck.

Yes, it's a complex task....but somehow state governments manage to get annual budgets done.

It's madness to be shutting down the federal government anytime the minority party wants to make a political point.

"There have been 15 funding gaps since the Civiletti opinions, including the government shutdown that began on October 1, 2025. Since many of those funding gaps occurred for a brief time, or over a weekend, there was not widespread government disruption. Four of those funding gaps, however, lasted four or more business days and broadly impacted government operations. The longest of those four shutdowns lasted 34 full days, from December 22, 2018, to January 24, 2019."

A Brief History of U.S. Government Shutdowns

Government shutdowns (and the threat of them) are a recent phenomenon and something other developed countries don't contend with.

www.pgpf.org

....and this one will be 45 days.