{"id":100390,"date":"2025-10-03T03:37:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T03:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/100390\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T03:37:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T03:37:13","slug":"us-vote-to-end-government-shutdown-fails-as-democrats-stand-by-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/100390\/","title":{"rendered":"US vote to end government shutdown fails as Democrats stand by demands"},"content":{"rendered":"

The tally showed cracks in the Democrats\u2019 resolve but offered no breakthrough.<\/p>\n

Blame was being cast on all sides on the first day of the shutdown.<\/p>\n

The White House and Congress failed to strike an agreement to keep programmes and services open, throwing the country into a new cycle of uncertainty.<\/p>\n

Roughly 750,000 federal workers were expected to be furloughed, with some potentially fired by Mr Trump\u2019s Republican administration.<\/p>\n

Many offices will be shuttered, perhaps permanently, as the president vows to \u201cdo things that are irreversible\u201d to punish Democrats.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump\u2019s deportation agenda is expected to run full speed ahead, while education, environmental and other services sputter. The economic fallout is expected to ripple across the US.<\/p>\n

\"Senate<\/p>\n

Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer described Donald Trump’s behaviour as ‘erratic’. Photo: AP<\/p>\n

Today’s News in 90 Seconds – October 2nd <\/p>\n

\u201cI certainly pray they will come to their senses,\u201d house speaker Mike Johnson said, flanked by Republican leaders at the Capitol.<\/p>\n

This is the third time Mr Trump has presided over a federal funding lapse and the first since his return to the White House this year. His record underscores the polarising divide over budget priorities in a political climate that rewards hard-line positions rather than more traditional compromises.<\/p>\n

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He is obsessively posting crazed deepfake videos<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Democrats picked this fight, which was unusual for the party that prefers to keep government running, but their voters are eager to challenge the president\u2019s second-term agenda.<\/p>\n

Democrats are demanding funding for healthcare subsidies that are expiring for millions of people under the Affordable Care Act, causing the insurance premiums to spike nationwide.<\/p>\n

Republicans have refused to negotiate and have encouraged Mr Trump to steer clear of any talks.<\/p>\n

After convening a White House meeting this week with the Democratic leaders, Mr Trump posted a cartoonish fake video mocking the Democratic leadership that was widely viewed as racist.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump\u2019s behaviour has become more erratic and unhinged,\u201d Democratic senator minority leaders Chuck Schumer and representative Hakeem Jeffries said in a joint statement, calling for an \u201cintervention\u201d to get the country out of the shutdown.<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead of negotiating a bipartisan agreement in good faith, he is obsessively posting crazed deepfake videos.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vice-president JD Vance said Republicans want to resolve the healthcare issues that concern Democrats but will not negotiate until the government reopens.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s craziness, and people are going to suffer because of this,\u201d Mr Vance said on the Fox News show Fox & Friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The tally showed cracks in the Democrats\u2019 resolve but offered no breakthrough. Blame was being cast on all…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,356,13,14,6,12175,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,1543,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-100390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-jd-vance","15":"tag-latest-news","16":"tag-latestnews","17":"tag-main-news","18":"tag-mainnews","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-topstories","22":"tag-usa","23":"tag-world","24":"tag-world-news","25":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}