{"id":8234,"date":"2025-10-01T10:47:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/us-government-shuts-down-democrats-republicans-play-blame-game\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T10:47:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:47:19","slug":"us-government-shuts-down-democrats-republicans-play-blame-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/us-government-shuts-down-democrats-republicans-play-blame-game\/","title":{"rendered":"US government shuts down; Democrats, Republicans play blame game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The United States government announced a shut down on Wednesday after Democrats and Republicans in the US Senate failed to pass a spending bill. The partisan division leads to what could result in the loss of thousands of federal jobs.<\/p>\n<p>The shutdown is a first in seven years, since December 2018, when the government stopped running for the longest time, 35 days, during Trump&rsquo;s first term. It is also the 15th since 1981.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate vote on Tuesday night fell 55-45 short of the 60 needed to override the filibuster, which would pass the legislation. Passing it would have meant extensions for the federal funding for seven weeks.<br>The shutdown would furlough 750,000 workers, with some potentially being fired by the Trump administration, costing $400M in daily compensation.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican party, which controls both the Senate and the House of Representatives, rejected the Democrats demands in relation to a proposed health care bill. It eventually ended with funding lapsing at midnight, with the Senate failing to advance both parties&rsquo; bills, which would have kept the government running, the Guardian reported.<\/p>\n<p>The shutdown was seen as inevitable by Tuesday evening. &nbsp;Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer said, &ldquo;Republicans are plunging America into a shutdown, rejecting bipartisan talks, pushing a partisan bill, and risking America&rsquo;s healthcare.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats blamed Trump and the Republicans for the federal funding lapse.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, both of New York, said in a joint statement that Democrats &ldquo;remain ready to find a bipartisan path forward to reopen the government in a way that lowers costs and addresses the Republican healthcare crisis.&rdquo;<br>&ldquo;The country is in desperate need of an intervention to get out of another Trump shutdown,&rdquo; they added.<\/p>\n<p>South Dakota Republican leader Leader John Thune said that the short term spending bill was a non partisan measure that was devoid of partisan policy riders that Democrats have had no problem accepting in past years. &ldquo;What&rsquo;s changed is, President Trump is in the White House. That&rsquo;s what this is about. This is politics. And there isn&rsquo;t any substantive reason why there ought to be a government shutdown,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Far-left interest groups and far-left Democrat members wanted to show down with the president, and so Senate Democrats have sacrificed the American people to Democrats&rsquo; partisan interests,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Independent analysts warn the shutdown could last longer than the budget-related closures of the past, with Trump and White House officials threatening to punish Democrats with cuts to government programs and the federal payroll.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate Republicans have scheduled another round of voting for Wednesday morning with the goal of trying ot get the Democrats to change their minds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>US government shuts down; Democrats, Republicans play blame game<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States government announced a shut down on Wednesday after Democrats and Republicans in the US Senate failed to pass a spending bill. The partisan division leads to what could result in the loss of thousands of federal jobs. The shutdown is a first in seven years, since December 2018, when the government stopped&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/us-government-shuts-down-democrats-republicans-play-blame-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;US government shuts down; Democrats, Republicans play blame game&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}