We’ll see how this plays out, but let’s be clear — there’s no grand master plan here, just political obstruction. It takes 60 votes in the Senate to break the deadlock that’s kept the government shut down, and there have already been 14 attempts to reopen it. Every single one has been blocked by Democrats.
They’re still digging in, convinced it’s somehow popular to paralyze Washington over $1.5 trillion in health care for illegal immigrants and continued funding for NPR. It’s not governance — it’s a tantrum disguised as principle, and the American people are the ones paying the price.
With Chuck Schumer apparently willing to politically self-immolate over this shutdown, Speaker Mike Johnson has had enough. Johnson says the New York Democrat can no longer be trusted as an honest broker in these negotiations and plans to bypass him entirely — reaching out directly to individual Senate Democrats to break the stalemate:
We’ll see how long this drags on, but for now, Schumer’s got his caucus in a chokehold, and the rest of us are stuck watching the fallout. It looks like we’re in for at least another week of this political hostage-taking.
Meanwhile, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is warning that things are about to get a lot worse — some U.S. airspace could actually be shut down due to critical staffing shortages. Democrats wanted drama, and now they’ve grounded the country to get it.
