Georgia Dems Side with GOP: âMilitary > Party Loyaltyâ Shutdown Saga
In a plot twist juicier than a droopy daytime soap, Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock from Georgia said bye-bye to Schumerâs chokehold and voted with Republicans on October 23 to fund military and federal workers during the government shutdown. They joined Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania in giving GOP bills a rare, scandalous thumbs-up â apparently re-election campaigns trump pure party line fanaticism. Meanwhile in the West Virginia wings, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito lamented talks fading like a bad TikTok trend, while the White House promised Democrats a âpost-shutdown lunchâ that I dare not call a bribe. Chuckâs Democrat mutiny crew just added fuel to this dumpster fire of divided loyalties and TSA paychecks.
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When your own team turns against you to pay the military and TSA through a shutdown, maybe Schumerâs control is the Senateâs version of dial-up internet: unreliable and ready to crash.
Ossoff and Warnock just flip-flopped harder than a Georgia Peach in a windstorm, proving that in shutdown politics, even Democrats get wanderlust.
Democrats voting with Republicans to pay TSA workers mid-shutdown is the political equivalent of stealing your own WiFi to keep buffering Netflix alive.
Source: Axios | Published: 10/23/2025 | Author: Stephen Neukam
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