Johnson Says House Will Remain Closed Until Shutdown Ends

Monday, October 13, 2025

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.

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So, Spkr Johnson and the Republicans are extending the shutdown.

Why?

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-10 02:38 PM | Reply

The moment government opens, the Epstein Files will be released.

Government will remain closed until that changes.

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-10 02:53 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-10 04:03 PM | Reply

Mike Johnson, John Thune, and Dummkopf Trumpf are endangering Americans in the skies and on the ground. Food safety surveillance is still functioning, but for how long? Here are three food recalls:

www.fda.gov

www.newsweek.com

www.delish.com

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-10 04:14 PM | Reply

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.

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-11 03:17 AM | Reply

The Epstein Scandal isn't ending.

So the government is never opening up.

Here we have a model for how Trump will deal with the mid-term elections.

The polling stations will simply stay closed.

#6 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-11 08:18 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

If I don't shoe up for work I don't get paid, lose my medical benefits and likely get fired. Congress needs to be held to that standard.

#7 | Posted by a_monson at 2025-10-14 05:18 AM | Reply

@ zed, elections are run by the states not the federal government.

#8 | Posted by a_monson at 2025-10-14 05:20 AM | Reply

"The Speaker of the House Is Abetting Authoritarianism:
Every Trump needs his Johnson: a flunky who will rationalize his crimes"
www.thebulwark.com

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.

#9 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-10-14 05:39 AM | Reply

They should not be paid.

#10 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-10-14 06:54 AM | Reply

The American government is an honor system. MAGA has no honor.

#11 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-10-14 06:56 AM | Reply

The polling stations will simply stay closed.

States run polling stations, so they'll be open.

Certain stations will have American gestapo agents there to harass and intimidate voters and they'll probably find every reason possible to force people to use provisional ballots that won't be counted ...

Then, when districts flip they'll simply not swear them in to office and will run on a skeleton crew like they are now, effectively relegating Congress to a formality.

#12 | Posted by jpw at 2025-10-14 10:17 AM | Reply

Shutting down Congress is one thing, stopping a newly elected Representative is quite another. The first happens every few years, but the second, should never ever happen.

#13 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-10-14 02:14 PM | Reply

If you were wondering if a Republican House could be any more useless, here's your answer.

#14 | Posted by Bacsimap at 2025-10-14 02:36 PM | Reply