Please note that all members of Congress continue to get paid but are not showing up for work. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Friday that he won't call House lawmakers back to Washington until the government shutdown ends.
Sen. Mark Kelly: "The president has indicated that he wants to do something about [ACA subsidies], and he wants the government open. Well, we want this fixed and we want the government open. So why is there a problem here?"[image or embed]
-- The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) Oct 12, 2025 at 12:40 PM
USDA issues another food alert, this time for Hello Fresh spinach that may be tainted with listeria :
www.fsis.usda.gov
Thanks USDA employees for working hard for free through the Republican Party government shutdown.
And many white Americans will still vote Republican after living through this second Dummkopf Trumpf Reign of Error.
"The Speaker of the House Is Abetting Authoritarianism:
Every Trump needs his Johnson: a flunky who will rationalize his crimes"
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The American founders expected better leaders than Johnson. They thought Congress would check the president. They didn't think one branch would surrender completely to another.
"Have you ever voted against anything that Trump set forth, as far as policy?" a caller asked Johnson on C-SPAN.
The speaker didn't name a single thing. "I typically vote with President Trump, I do, because that's my party," he said.
And nothing Trump has done"the sham prosecutions, the threats of imprisonment, the invasions of American cities"has shaken that blind devotion.
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