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Republicans Are Already Revealing Their Potential Government Shutdown Strategy.

It’s as goofy as you might imagine.

3 min readSep 3, 2025

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As we all have come to realize if you even remotely follow politics, it’s all nothing but a game to our lawmakers.

If there’s anything people on opposite ends of the political spectrum can agree on, it’s that our politicians are more interested in optics and talking, than actually getting things done to benefit the American people. Oh rest assured if it stands to benefit them and the wealthy who run their campaigns, they will not rest until it gets done.

But when it comes to all the rest of it, we’re all nothing but the middle men and they don’t even really bother to hide it anymore. In fact, se got a look at their plans for the looming potential government shutdown and how they are looking to frame and talk about it.

Quoting a clip from his interview where the shutdown was discussed, on Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas’ website, it says:

“Look, Mark, we’ll keep the government open one way or the other. But this is all about the Schumer shutdown. Senate Republicans, we’ve done our job. Compliments to the Chairwoman, Senator Susan Collins, up there, running the appropriations committee. As Allison mentioned, there’s 12 buckets we have to get to fund…

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Lauren Elizabeth
Lauren Elizabeth

Written by Lauren Elizabeth

Lauren is a writer & leftist with analysis on topics related to politics & policy. She can be reached at LaurenMartinchek@gmail.com or Twitter @xlauren_mx