House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA.) bleated the government shutdown is on its way to being one of the longest in history unless Democrats accept the House-passed, GOP-crafted stopgap bill to reopen the government. "We're barreling toward one of the longest shutdowns in American history, unless Democrats dropped their partisan demands and passed a clean, no-strings-attached budget to reopen the government and pay our federal workers," Johnson whined on the 13th day of the government shutdown. Congress has been locked in a standoff over government funding as Democrats demand that Republicans make concessions on health care, notably Affordable Care Act tax credits that are expiring at the end of the year. GOP leaders have refused to negotiate on health care during a shutdown, arguing that that Democrats must accept the "clean" funding stopgap the House passed in September " and which has failed to advance in the Senate seven times.
The Republican government shutdown, 13 days and counting, already marks one of the longest federal government funding lapses in modern history. The longest government shutdown was from 2018 to 2019 during Dummkopf's Trumpf's first Reign of Terror, lasting 35 days. Republicans don't care if diseases spread in the population, foreign spies run rampant, healthcare for poor people is cancelled, food banks run empty, or aviation safety collapses. The American public, including House Republican Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-GA), knows who is responsible for this calamity, no matter how many lies the nefarious Trumpf junta propagates.
