The Schumer Shutdown has been going on for more than a month now.
It started on October 1, and the Senate won’t even be able to have another vote on it until Tuesday at the earliest.
The extended shutdown is raising concerns, particularly about funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and how it may be impacting air travel.
🚨For those traveling in and out of Newark — expect significant delays. We HAVE to reduce flight volumes to MAINTAIN SAFETY 🚨
This is exactly what @SenSchumer and @RepJeffries want — to inflict maximum pain on the American people!
The moment they stop putting illegals’… https://t.co/RRP07VaABy
— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) November 2, 2025
Fox News Channel’s Maria Bartiromo asked Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Sunday if he thought the government would open this week, as the shutdown was “seriously impacting the U.S. economy.” Cruz had an intelligent take on when it might be over, and why.
🚨 BREAKING: In an infuriating development, Sen. Ted Cruz just learned Democrats are plotting to reopen the government AFTER this Tuesday’s election because they wanted to juice Democrat voter turnout.
“Wednesday or Thursday. The Democrats will wait until after the election day… pic.twitter.com/iY2gQoOm4G
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 2, 2025
“I think it’s likely to open Wednesday or Thursday of this week,” he said
The Democrats will wait until after Election Day because they think a shutdown is good for energizing the crazies in their party. But I think it will either be late this week or early next week.”
That sounds like a pretty intelligent assessment to me. The whole point of this exercise seems to have been to juice the leftist base, to try to appeal to them that somehow the Democrats were “fighting” for them. If they get people out and they can walk away with wins, even if they were in areas where they were already leading, they can say, “Hey, look, guys, we beat them,” and convince the left they’ve done something. It gives them something of an off-ramp to argue.
They likely think this can help them in Virginia, where there are a lot of federal workers, and then they can all come out to vote. Maybe. But the federal workers and others in Virginia might also realize it’s the Democrats who have been behind the shutdown. We saw Republicans had actually gained in approval since the shutdown started. We saw that the largest federal employee union, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), has called for everyone to vote for the clean CR and open the government.
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As with many things with Democrats, this could backfire on them.
It says something about Democrats, too, if this is their motivation – that they’re more concerned about their own power than they are about how such political games would affect the people who haven’t gotten paid, the people on SNAP, the people who may otherwise be hurt by the shutdown, and the harmful effects on the economy.
It’s completely believable, given what we have seen from Democrats.
Editor’s Note: The Schumer Shutdown is here. Rather than put the American people first, Chuck Schumer and the radical Democrats forced a government shutdown for healthcare for illegals. They own this.
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