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Federal government shutdown grinds into
a second week, but quiet talks emerging

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Posted By: 4250Luis, 10/8/2025 3:34:59 AM

Tours at the Capitol have come to a standstill. The House is keeping its doors closed, while the Senate is stuck in a loop of failed votes on a rejected plan to reopen the government. President Donald Trump is threatening to mass fire federal workers and refuse back pay for the rest. As the government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight. “You have to negotiate,” Sen. Bernie Sanders, the independent from Vermont, argued late into the evening on the Senate floor. “That’s the way it works.”

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Reply 1 - Posted by: downnout 10/8/2025 4:29:04 AM (No. 2014007)
The Democrats idea of negotiating: “Give us what we want.”
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Reply 2 - Posted by: ARKfamily 10/8/2025 5:03:38 AM (No. 2014009)
So these Democrat Senators can still get their paycheck but the shutdown eliminates others from getting theirs? Don't you just love double standards?
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Reply 3 - Posted by: SweetPea3 10/8/2025 6:14:18 AM (No. 2014017)
Donks AND pubbies have we their fingers and raised them in the air, are waiting to see which side public opinion favors.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Cherrybark 10/8/2025 6:53:34 AM (No. 2014027)
And not even a whisper of Federal workers actually being fired during this brief window of time that President Trump is reported to have complete control of the process. I'll definitely get flamed for commenting that Dems seem to be riding out the shutdown without a care in the world as the White House blusters and the Republican House and Senate flounder.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Bur Oak 10/8/2025 7:04:34 AM (No. 2014033)
The government has been shutdown for a week and I can't tell any difference.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Sorosisbehindit 10/8/2025 7:09:25 AM (No. 2014034)
Bernie's "That's the way it works" tells me they think this is their usual dance. Guess what - Trump does not tango!
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Reply 7 - Posted by: PChristopher 10/8/2025 7:11:44 AM (No. 2014037)
At least traffic around the beltway's not as bad as it usually is.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Strike3 10/8/2025 7:13:34 AM (No. 2014038)
Nothing is "grinding." I'm enjoying the heck out of it watching the democrats slowly broil over the fire. I won't use the word "landslide" but the 2026 election is going to look like the fall of Rome.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: mifla 10/8/2025 7:36:27 AM (No. 2014048)
Have to believe that part of the quiet talks among the Dems are about getting rid of Schumer. The best part is that he will be replaced by AOC, the barmaid who is a legend in her own mind.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: bpl40 10/8/2025 8:30:04 AM (No. 2014096)
Schumer who cooks raw hamburgers with cheese, replaced by AOC, the reason there are instructions on shampoo bottles. Wow!
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Birddog 10/8/2025 8:38:10 AM (No. 2014102)
“You have to negotiate,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Socialist from Vermont, . “That’s the way it works.” . No it does NOT, we do not have to negotiate with Hostage Takers, Blackmailers, Extortionists. If you want to pout, hold your breath until you turn Blue? That's on you...you are still not getting Ice Cream, because you did not clean your plate.. It's seems that these Dems were all raised in, apparently fatherless, families where stompy foot tantrum terrorism was rewarded
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Reply 12 - Posted by: stablemoney 10/8/2025 10:12:16 AM (No. 2014152)
I do not want the Republicans to negotiate with Democrats. I want those federal employee terminations that we were told would happen, if the Democrats shut down the government. Where are they? Republicans told us never to let a crisis go to waste. It is looking like Republicans are letting the shutdown go to waste, and we are going to get nothing, or worse, some more spending on healthcare for illegals.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: JimBob 10/8/2025 2:38:50 PM (No. 2014298)
The 'Rats have adopted the Islamist style of 'negotiating', which is "GIVE US EVERYTHING WE WANT UP FRONT, then we'll TALK about giving You some of what You want." Ol' Bernie the Commie is demanding 'negotiations'. As far as I am concerned, he can go to Helen Waite. Stand Firm, Pubbies! If the Pubbies let the 'Rats bully them into giving in on this, then the 'Rats will pull the same stunt every time they don't get their way. Don't give up the hard-fought gains that were made in the One Big Beautiful Bill act! It's the SCHUMER SHUTDOWN! Keep up that drumbeat! Day In and Day Out, Hour after Hour!
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