September 28, 2025
The Schumer Shutdown and Comey Comeuppance
By Clarice Feldman
To my mind, the two biggest stories of the week for their domestic impact are Senator Chuck Schumer’s threatened government shutdown and the indictment of former FBI head James Comey. Neither of them bodes well for the Democrats, whose favorability ratings are already scraping bottom. Both revolve around the magic date September 30, that is, this Tuesday. If Congress does not pass a continuing resolution this Tuesday, the government will shut down.
Schumer insists that he won’t vote for a stopgap bill, something centrists in his party like Senator Jeanne Shaheen are seeking. Schumer, along with Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, has said that he will not vote for a continuing resolution unless there’s a restoration of the $1.5 trillion in cuts contained in the One Beautiful Bill enacted into law in July and the rescissions Trump wanted and got.
Unfortunately for the Democrats, Trump is significantly shrewder than they are. He’s made it clear that this will not be the usual performative shutdown and cave. Nope. He will use the shutdown “to justify firing federal employees running programs ‘not consistent with the president’s priorities’.”
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