{"id":8019,"date":"2026-04-04T03:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/8019\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T03:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:12:09","slug":"rep-seth-magaziner-reacts-to-criticism-over-real-housewives-party-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/8019\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Seth Magaziner Reacts to Criticism Over ‘Real Housewives’ Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TMZ\"<\/a>Updated Fri, April 3, 2026 at 9:12 PM UTC\"\"<\/p>\n

Rep. Seth Magaziner<\/a> understands concerns about the bad optics of him hosting a ‘Real Housewives’ premiere party during the government shutdown … but he’s laying blame on the guy who sent the House of Representatives packing for this two-week recess.<\/p>\n

The Congressman from Rhode Island joined us Friday on “TMZ Live,” and pointed a finger at House Speaker Mike Johnson<\/a>, saying he never should have sent everyone home without voting on a bill to end the partial shutdown … which, of course, has thousands of federal employees working without pay.<\/p>\n

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It’s something we’ve heard a lot recently from Congress members — the Democrats, at least — that it’s all Johnson’s fault, and while there may be some truth there … we’re thinking BOTH parties should wear the stalemate, because THEY aren’t doing their jobs.<\/p>\n

Rep. Magaziner says he’s ready to book it back<\/a> to Washington D.C. to get to work, if Speaker Johnson makes the call … and he says there’s a bipartisan deal on the table that can make this all go away, but explains why it hasn’t been passed.<\/p>\n

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Politicians On Vacation During Partial Government Shutdown – Click image to open gallery<\/p>\n

Congress is being paid for their two-week vacation while other federal workers go without … and he says if Congress had their pay taken away during a shutdown, we wouldn’t see this scenario playing out over and over again.<\/p>\n

Catch the full interview on “TMZ Live.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Fri, April 3, 2026 at 9:12 PM UTC Rep. Seth Magaziner understands concerns about the bad optics…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[1080,491,478,7657,7656,7658,7655],"class_list":{"0":"post-8019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mike-johnson","8":"tag-government-shutdown","9":"tag-house-of-representatives","10":"tag-mike-johnson","11":"tag-premiere-party","12":"tag-real-housewives","13":"tag-rep","14":"tag-seth-magaziner"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116344254854364256","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}