The Government Has Been Shut Down for Months

Today is the day we stop pretending that it’s not.

by David Dayen, Whitney Curry Wimbish

September 30, 2025

  • PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
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    6 hours ago

    So the cool thing about government shutdowns is that all the stuff you think wouldn’t be funded like ICE, or the Military, still is. But all the stuff that people rely on like federal services, healthcare, etc, somehow has to shut down.

    Now of course, the dems could have changed this anytime they wanted to under Obama or Clinton, with a simple majority vote, basically making government be funded at the previous years levels, but they didn’t want to for some reason. I can’t imagine why.