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lostincalifornia

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Fri Oct 31, 2025, 01:02 PM Oct 31

What the press seems to completely miss is that with the republican so-called "big beautiful bill", which [View all]

completely excluded Democrats from the conversation, and refused to allow any increased subsidies for the ACA, and Medicaid in the bill, in spite of the significant increase in insurance premiums, WHY would anyone think that the republican party that intentionally excluded that from the big budget bill, now think that if a continuing resolution was agreed upon, these SAME PEOPLE would be willing to now discuss it only if a continuing resolution was passed?

I have NEVER heard such bullshit from the MSM in their framing of the situation.

What is interesting according to the most recent polls, the majority of Americans BLAME the republicans for the shutdown, and that includes independents.

So in spite of the MSM pushing republican misinformation through their outlets, it seems like the American people are way ahead of the MSM on this.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/americans-increasingly-concerned-government-shutdown-blame-republicans-trump/story?id=127019678


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