Democrats’ $1.5 trillion demand to keep the gov’t open sets a new record for gall By Post Editorial

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 Democrats’ $1.5 trillion demand to keep the gov’t open sets a new record for gall
By Post Editorial Board   
Published Sep. 19, 2025, 9:21 p.m. ET

Senate Democrats this week said they’d let the Republican short-term spending bill pass, and so avoid a government shutdown as of Oct. 1, for the low, low price of . . . $1.5 trillion.

Yep, they demand that much added spending, which means $1.5 trillion in new federal debt over the next decade.

To add a single month of uninterupted federal operations, the GOP must agree to:

1) permanently extend Biden-era ObamaCare subsidies that now sunset Dec. 31, and

2) gut the health savings just passed in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and

3) unfreeze $5 billion in foreign aid that President Donald Trump recently stopped while Congress was on (yet another) vacation.

Republicans didn’t bite, so Senate Dems this week used the filibuster to block the GOP’s “stopgap” bill, setting up a game of chicken when Congress gets back to work at the very end of the month.

It’s basically Vladimir Putin’s approach to Ukraine talks: Surrender, then we can start negotiating.

The national debt already sits at a crippling $36.2 trillion — 119.4% of GDP, a level not seen since World War II. We spend $1 trillion a year on interest alone.

And Dems propose a whole new round of generational theft.

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By history repeating itself, if the Dems demands are met, then of course it will be Trump who gets blamed for the $1.5T debt increase.

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There is a 99.999% probability that the Republicans concede something to the Democrats.  And there is also a 99.999% that the Democrats will use that concession against the Republicans in the next election.

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The Dems wrote this letter to Trump:




If the Republicans had any fortitude at all, they would cut $1.5 trillion in spending from the continuing resolution.  Teach the Dems that the more they try to extort, the more they will lose.

But then we know that Republicans don't have any fortitude.  They control the White House.  They control the House.  They control the Senate.  Yet we're still operating under Pelosi's 2022 budget with it's automatic spending increases year after year.  And even with that, the Dems are demanding $1.5 trillion more.  Why in the hell are Republicans allowing this?