{"id":61621,"date":"2025-11-10T12:25:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T17:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=61621"},"modified":"2025-11-10T12:25:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T17:25:55","slug":"continuing-the-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=61621","title":{"rendered":"Continuing The Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, Fox News<\/a> posted an article about a recent vote in the Senate. Obviously, the Democrat filibuster is preventing the Republicans from opening the government, but the Democrats won’t even vote to help the people being hurt by the shutdown.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Senate Democrats<\/strong><\/a> again blocked a plan by Republicans to ensure that federal workers and the military would receive a paycheck as the shutdown back and forth revs into high gear.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sen. Ron Johnson<\/a>, R-Wis., again tried to advance a modified version of his “Shutdown Fairness Act” bill that would see federal workers and the military paid now and during subsequent government shutdowns. However, the bill failed 53-43 with 3 Democrats defecting to support the bill. Georgia Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, and Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n of New Mexico voted for the bill.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last month, it was blocked over concerns from Senate Democrats that it did not include furloughed workers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

The GOP\u2019s attempt to pay federal workers amid the ongoing, 38-day shutdown came as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer<\/a>, D-N.Y., and his caucus announced their counter-offer to Senate Republicans\u2019 plan to reopen the government.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Schumer\u2019s offer included attaching a one-year extension onto expiring Obamacare subsidies \u2014 the main sticking point of the shutdown \u2014 in exchange for the Democratic votes to reopen the government.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But the offer, which a source told Fox News Digital had been made in private to Senate Republicans last week and was summarily rejected, was again not going over well with Republicans.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Senate is expected to return on Saturday to vote on the House-passed plan for a 15th time. Whether Schumer and his caucus block it once more remains to be seen.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Schumer’s offer was essentially “You give us what we want and we will allow you to open the government.” That’s pretty much your basic hostage statement. I particularly like Senator Kennedy’s suggestion for a law that says if federal workers are not paid, Congress should not be paid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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