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bigtree

(93,131 posts) Wed Oct 1, 2025, 11:24 AM Oct 1

Happening Now: Dems on the job in Congress fighting to restore health care and other cuts, republicans on vacation

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Photo shows House Democrats in full attendance to stop government shutdown while the Republican side of the chamber is empty.

watch: LIVE: Senate floor as government shutdown begins

Democratic minority leaders Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) speak to the press after the U.S. government officially shut down at midnight

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Happening Now: Dems on the job in Congress fighting to restore health care and other cuts, republicans on vacation (Original Post) bigtree Oct 1 OP

The plan is to make us suffer, interfere with our Social Security payments and everything else Eliot Rosewater Oct 1 #1

And yet, no matter how many wooden stakes through the heart, Both Sides is still alive and well. betsuni Oct 1 #2

Every damn day they need to do this JCMach1 Oct 1 #3

Eliot Rosewater

(34,282 posts)

1. The plan is to make us suffer, interfere with our Social Security payments and everything else

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Wed Oct 1, 2025, 11:36 AM

Oct 1

And tell their MAGA idiots that it’s liberals and Democrats fault and that they should do something about it.

betsuni

(28,516 posts)

2. And yet, no matter how many wooden stakes through the heart, Both Sides is still alive and well.

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Wed Oct 1, 2025, 12:05 PM

Oct 1

JCMach1

(29,034 posts)

3. Every damn day they need to do this

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Wed Oct 1, 2025, 12:21 PM

Oct 1

And then step outside and speechify and hit the media non-stop. Flood the damn zone on them.

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