He's Happy, He Is Like A Kid In A Candy Store

Trump is actually gleeful over the shutdown... he doesn't see the hardship it will cause millions of people. He doesn't care about the millions who will be laid off. He doesn't care what it will do to the economy. He is only after getting more political power... this is nothing more than a power grab at the people's expense!

Why the US government might shut down and when it might happen

BBC News

By Anthony Zurcher and James FitzGerald

September 30, 2025

Funding for the US government will be cut off at the end of Tuesday unless President Donald Trump's Republican Party can agree with opposition Democrats on a way forward on a spending bill.

That could bring some - but not all - US government services to a temporary halt.

Although budget confrontations are common in US politics, this particular spending fight is especially tense, given that Trump has spent the last nine months drastically cutting down the size of the federal (meaning national) government.

What will it mean to we the people?

What's different about the White House response this time?

What stands out about this current standoff is the position of Trump's team.

In the past, long shutdowns were usually seen as politically dangerous, hampering both voters' everyday lives and the images of lawmakers and the president.

But this time around, the Trump administration appears more than happy to shutter large parts of the US government for an extended period. In fact, officials have threatened to use a shutdown to identify "non-essential" workers who could then be permanently let go.

Also, after previous shutdowns, government operations mostly returned to normal, with staff and spending levels largely going back to prior levels once the standoff is resolved.

Over the past nine months, however, the Trump administration has slashed spending and pushed workers out of their jobs, testing the boundaries of presidential power. A shutdown could allow the administration to accelerate its massive reductions.

Don't expect this shutdown to be over fast... we are in it for the long haul.

Trump’s shutdown blame game: Why he says Democrats are at fault

AP News

By  SEUNG MIN KIM

September 28, 2025

President Donald Trump has had one refrain in recent days when asked about the looming government shutdown.

Will there be a shutdown? Yes, Trump says, “because the Democrats are crazed.” Why is the White House pursuing mass firings, not just furloughs, of federal workers? Trump responds, “Well, this is all caused by the Democrats.”

Is he concerned about the impact of a shutdown? “The radical left Democrats want to shut it down,” he retorts.

“If it has to shut down, it’ll have to shut down,” Trump said Friday. “But they’re the ones that are shutting down government.”

In his public rhetoric, the Republican president has been singularly focused on laying pressure on Democrats in hopes they will yield before Wednesday, when the shutdown could begin, or shoulder the political blame if they don’t. That has aligned Trump with House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., who have refused to accede to Democrats’ calls to include health care provisions on a bill that will keep the government operating for seven more weeks.

Trump does what Trump does best... lie and blame others!

Still, Republicans say they are confident Democrats would be faulted if the closure comes. For Trump, the impact would go far beyond politics. His administration is sketching plans to implement mass layoffs of federal workers rather than simply furloughing them, furthering their goal of building a far smaller government that lines up with Trump’s vision and policy priorities.

Trump is trying to blame us for the shutdown over our healthcare, I wrote about that here.

What do the Democrats want? Usually it is the Republicans making demands...

The GOP’s stance — a short-term extension of funding, with no strings attached — is unusual for a political party that has often tried to extract policy demands using the threat of a government shutdown as leverage.

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This time, it’s the Democrats making the policy demands.

They want an extension of subsidies that help low- and middle-income earners who buy insurance coverage through the Obama-era health care law. They also want to reverse cuts to Medicaid enacted in the GOP’s tax and border spending bill this year. Republican leaders say what Democrats are pushing for is too costly and too complicated to negotiate with the threat of a government shutdown hanging over lawmakers.

Trump is itching to use his hatch to cut jobs and lay people off.

We are in this shutdown for the long haul, Republicans in Congress have no backbone to stand up to Trump. My prediction is that this shutdown will be the longest in history, in another PBS News article they write...

Trump has shown little interest in entertaining Democrats’ demands on health care, even as he agreed to hold a sit-down meeting Monday with Schumer, along with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries. The Republican president has said repeatedly he fully expects the government to enter a shutdown this week.

I will tell you this... Congress will not be singing "I'll be home for Christmas" because they will still be battling CR in Congress.