Shutdown Week 3: Troops Paid by Magic, Congress Holidays On
In a plot twist straight out of a political sitcom, the 2025 US government shutdown limps into its third week while actual legislators prepare to disappear for the weekend. Despite federal workers missing paychecks and essential services locked tighter than Capitol Hill secrets, this crisis is treated like last week's non-viral meme. Georgetown's Matt Glassman calls it 'the weirdest shutdown' because Democrats bet on health care talks nobody sees as high-stakes, while Republicans enjoy ghostly non-defenses of thrice-broken government. Trump, meanwhile, plays financial wizardryâfunding troops with spontaneous tariff cash and temporarily resurrecting the WIC program, raising eyebrows higher than the national debt. Scheduled 11/1 health subsidy letters might force a big finale, unless another TSA sick-out steals the show. Spoiler: Congress probably loses, but hey, handshakes on paper maybe!
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When your government shutdown feels like a sleepy soap opera starring unpaid workers, absent Congress, and Trump turning tariff cash into magic show tricks, you know democracyâs just taking a long coffee break nobody asked for.
Welcome to Shutdown 2025 where the troops get surprise paychecks via financial hocus pocus, Democrats pretend they're not causing it, and Congress goes on a weekend vacation during the nation's biggest government freeze.
Why solve a shut-down when you can handwave it with tariff revenue and hope no one really notices TSA agents staging a sick-out? National governance or the strangest episode of âSurvivor Capitol Editionâ? You decide.
Source: Vox | Published: 10/17/2025 | Author: Cameron Peters
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