GOP lurches toward shutdown as Democrats vow they won't be rolled

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Source: The Hill

09/04/25 6:00 AM ET


Democrats are taking a much tougher stance on the looming deadline to keep the government open than they did earlier this year, warning there will be a shutdown if Republicans attempt to jam them with another partisan stopgap funding measure from the House.

Spurred on by disgruntled progressives who want to see more fight from them, Democrats are breathing fire after President Trump thumbed his nose at Congress last week by proposing a pocket rescission, which would allow his White House budget director to rescind $5 billion in previously appropriated funding without any input from Capitol Hill.

Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chair Patty Murray (D-Wash.) said Wednesday that Democrats are willing to negotiate bipartisan bills but warned “if House Republicans … go a different route and try to jam through a partisan CR without any input from Democratic members of Congress,” they may not have enough Democratic votes to keep the government open.

“That is a Republican shutdown,” she said. “There is no reason for Republicans to walk away from this table, not after the progress we made this summer,” she said, referring to the bipartisan appropriations bills passed out of the Senate Appropriations panel. Murray urged Republicans to “ignore” Russell Vought, director of the Office and Management and Budget, who is pushing a pocket rescission to claw back $5 billion in funding from the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5484944-democrats-tough-stance-government-shutdown/

[Escape]

1. This is not newsworthy..,

There will be no Goddamn shutdown. How many times do we have to do this?

This false drama is not worth a second glance. An hour before the shutdown, all the cowards will fall in line.

[doc03]

2. I have seen that movie many times. nt

[regnaD kciN]

3. See: Lucy and the football...

[Initech]

4. The entire GOP needs to be rooted out of the government. They are a danger to democracy.

[BComplex]

5. This is the post I agree with more than any other I've read in years! Yes!!

The entire GOP needs to be thrown out of government, and many of them into jail.

[Captain Zero]

6. by whatever means necessary

nt

[Miguelito Loveless]

7. We'll see...

[republianmushroom]

8. I'm with you, on this.