{"id":12976,"date":"2025-09-25T09:06:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T01:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=12976"},"modified":"2025-09-25T09:06:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T01:06:37","slug":"gop-hopes-to-make-potential-shutdown-painful-for-dems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=12976","title":{"rendered":"GOP hopes to make potential shutdown painful for Dems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"547\" height=\"307\" src=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/38.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12977\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/38.png 547w, https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/38-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>President Trump and GOP lawmakers are itching to make a potential government shutdown as painful as possible for Democrats as negotiations show few signs of progress with less than a week to go before the deadline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Republicans and Democrats have talked past each other for weeks, with each side refusing to pivot from their calls for a seven-week \u201cclean\u201d stopgap package and for protecting Affordable Care Act subsidies, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But with the high-stakes deadline approaching, Republicans are warning members of the minority party that if a shutdown comes to pass, Trump will make life incredibly difficult for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d be much more worried if I were a blue state. The president has a lot of discretionary power on what he declares is \u2026 essential,\u201d said Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) when asked about a shutdown\u2019s impact on his state. \u201cWe do not want a shutdown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the first time in a while, Republicans believe they have the wind at their sails heading into a shutdown fight. The party has been largely united behind the seven-week continuing resolution (CR) push, with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) heading the efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They also have additional tools in their toolkit they appear ready and willing to wield if the government\u2019s lights go dark \u2014 some of which have been used against them in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A number of Republicans have cited the impact of the 2013 shutdown, which then-President Obama and then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) used to pillory the GOP when conservatives were attempting to defund ObamaCare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump and GOP lawmakers are itching to make a potential government shutdown as painful as possible for Democrats as negotiations show few signs of progress with less than a week to go before the deadline. 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