"House Republicans🚨stopped revising their legislative calendar back in July. So I updated it for them. Since July 4, the House has conducted 20 days of business in 16 weeks. Oct 27-30 remains TBD."
-J Dupree

Republican FASCISTS DON'T GOVERN.🚨Trump is using the #shutdown to harm blue states by stopping/eliminating projects/programs, for more #firings of fed govt wkrs, halting food aid & needed svcs...
#TrumpShutdown #Fascism #MikeJohnson #Austerity #Trumpcession #Firings #Epstein #Protest #USPol

"House Republicans🚨stopped revising their legislative calendar back in July. So I updated it for them. Since July 4, the House has conducted 20 days of business in 16 weeks. Oct 27-30 remains TBD."
-J Dupree

Republican FASCISTS DON'T GOVERN.🚨Trump is using the #shutdown to harm blue states by stopping/eliminating projects/programs, for more #firings of fed govt wkrs, halting food aid & needed svcs...
#TrumpShutdown #Fascism #MikeJohnson #Austerity #Trumpcession #Firings #Epstein #Protest #USPol

>700,000 federal employees have been sidelined & thousands more are at risk of being fired as the #government #shutdown drags on.

But the workers responsible for carrying out #Trump’s plans for more #FossilFuels & less #wind & #solar power are still hard at work. Some are approving permits for companies that want to extract #metals, #coal, #oil & #gas from #PublicLands & federal #waters. Others are rolling back limits on the #GreenhouseGas #emissions that are driving #ClimateChange.

#law

>700,000 federal employees have been sidelined & thousands more are at risk of being fired as the #government #shutdown drags on.

But the workers responsible for carrying out #Trump’s plans for more #FossilFuels & less #wind & #solar power are still hard at work. Some are approving permits for companies that want to extract #metals, #coal, #oil & #gas from #PublicLands & federal #waters. Others are rolling back limits on the #GreenhouseGas #emissions that are driving #ClimateChange.

#law

The #Government Is #ShutDown. But Not for #FossilFuels.

Federal workers who issue permits for oil, #gas & #mining operations are on the job, along with those working to repeal #pollution limits.

#Trump #law#EnvironmentalLaw #regulations#ClimateCrisis
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/climate/trump-government-shutdown-energy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

"But it gets worse. Trump backtracked on the promise of the financial bailout, saying that the aid would be granted only if Trump’s preferred candidate wins in the upcoming presidential election in Argentina."

#Trump #fascism#PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants#ICE #shutdown #military#MikeJohnson #corruption#Argentina #bailout
/9

"During the federal shutdown, in which hundreds of thousands of federal workers are not being paid, Trump announced that he would give Argentina $20 billion in 'aid' that would go to political and social elites in that country."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #fascism#PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants#ICE #shutdown #military#MikeJohnson #corruption#Argentina #bailout
/8

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/our-job-invite-disaffected-trump

"Of the nearly $28 billion in grants the administration has frozen or canceled during the shutdown, $27.24 billion—97 percent—was for projects in Democrat-led congressional districts."

~ The Bulwark

#Trump #fascism#PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants#ICE #shutdown #military#MikeJohnson #corruption
/7

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/its-getting-worse-bondi-patel-political-prosecutions-comey-james-young-republican-group-chat

"The administration continues to try to demonstrate its power. Today it announced its fifth known attack on a boat 'just off the coast of Venezuela' in international waters."

#Trump #fascism#PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants#ICE #shutdown #military#MikeJohnson #corruption#Venezuela
/6

"Today, Trump tried to pressure Democrats by telling reporters the slashing of government programs will hurt only Democrats. 'We’re not closing up Republican programs because we think they work,' he said. 'So the Democrats are getting killed, but they’re not telling the people about that…. So we are closing up Democrat programs that we think that we disagree with, and they’re never going to open again.'”

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #fascism #shutdown
/5

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-14-2025

"To bring a democracy under authoritarian control, you need more than a strongman. You need politicians who will assure the public, as we slide toward one-man rule, that nothing odd is happening. That’s the role Johnson is playing in Donald Trump’s takeover of America."

~ Will Saletan

#Trump #fascism#PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants#ICE #shutdown #military#MikeJohnson #corruption
/4

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/speaker-mike-johnson-abetting-trump-authoritarianism

"I’ve worked through shutdowns. I’ve witnessed them in Washington, and I’ve covered them for Pod Save America. What Johnson and the Republicans are doing—and why they’re doing it—is truly unconscionable.

It should be a national scandal."

#Trump #fascism#PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants#ICE #shutdown #military#MikeJohnson #corruption
/3

"It’s a statement about life in the Trump era that a government shutdown is the most normal thing happening in politics.

If people were paying attention—or if the political press had the attention span and reach to cover the shutdown—the behavior of Speaker Mike Johnson and the House Republicans would be a massive scandal."

~ Dan Pfeiffer

#Trump #fascism#PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants#ICE #shutdown #military#MikeJohnson #corruption
/2

https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/mike-johnsons-shutdown-strategy-is

"The politics of the second Trump administration is a politics of fear."

~ Guillaume A. W. Attia

#Trump #fascism#PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants#ICE #shutdown #military
/1

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politics-of-fear-in-american-history/