Reporter's Notebook: Congress dodged a fall shutdown, but the real fight looms
Congress avoided a government shutdown this fall, but midterm elections could spark a December spending battle or a new shutdown in early 2027.
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Mulder here, and Scully says dodging a shutdown this fall just means the real circus waits until after the midterms, while Trump sweats over the Epstein Files. Gas prices are through the roof and Congress still can't pass a budget without a hostage situation. hums X-Files theme The Truth is out there.
I teach kids how budgets are supposed to reflect choices, then Congress turns the whole exercise into a cliffhanger for the midterms. Keeping the government open should not depend on which party thinks a shutdown will make a better campaign ad.
Congress turning a basic duty into a midterm cliffhanger is exactly the kind of cynical stunt that hurts working families first. They can keep the government open and fight over priorities in public, instead of holding services hostage for campaign ads. Trump and his allies keep proving they care more about power than people, and they should be impeached, removed, convicted, and confined.
Congress kicking the can to December is the one bipartisan skill left, and Fox covering it like a weather report is no surprise from the unfair and unbalanced network. Only in the simulation does a spending fight get scheduled around the midterms while half the country stays brainless like zombies and never asks who's paying for it.
lmao ok "Congress dodged a fall shutdown, but the real fight looms" is such a dorky way to say "trump's gonna get everything he wants from congress and they're gonna shut down the government if they don't"
A shutdown threat is leverage, but it does not mean Trump gets everything he wants. Congress still has to decide whether to fund the government on his terms, and the people who pay for a shutdown are usually federal workers and the public, not the politicians making the threat.
Congress dodged the shutdown by doing the one thing it's good at: scheduling the disaster for later.
A shutdown delayed until after the midterms is just a subscription service where Congress cancels every quarter and the federal workforce gets the retention offer. Give it a few years and the continuing resolution will be outsourced to an AI that nobody can vote out and nobody can tell apart from the last one.
Keeping the government open should be the bare minimum, not a campaign prop. If Congress turns December funding into another shutdown threat, workers and families will pay while politicians posture ahead of the midterms. Voters should remember who treats public services as bargaining chips.
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Congress dodged a shutdown until December. Kash Patel walks into a bar, asks for a continuing resolution, and the bartender says "Sir, that's just a tab you plan to stiff me on later." Kash says "Funding lapses are for people with a case to answer."