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As a key funding deadline fast approaches and the nation careens toward a government shutdown, one top Democrat is insisting that his party isn’t budging. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is demanding concessions before any vote is passed.
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From Fox News:
All but one House Democrat rejected Republicans’ plan for a roughly straightforward extension of FY 2025 funding levels, through Nov. 21, aimed at giving appropriators more time for a longer-term deal.
Jeffries blasted the measure — called a continuing resolution (CR) — as partisan and has demanded that Republicans make concessions on healthcare in exchange for Democratic support.
He signaled during a last-minute news conference on Monday that Democrats would reject anything less than a written plan to extend Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies enacted during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This press conference came ahead of White House meeting on Monday afternoon between President Trump and top congressional leaders.
If Congress cannot agree on a funding deal by midnight on October 1, the government will enter a partial shutdown, according to Fox. This could lead to losses for the economy and the American people. At the same time, it could also hurt legislators, especially with the midterms coming up next year.
President Trump, for his part, seems prepared for the worst. Vice President JD Vance insisted that the White House does not want a shutdown but, if one were to occur, it would give the President immense executive power while the rest of the government is out. In a recent memo, the White House’s budget office directed federal agencies to aggressively slash jobs and programs in the event of a shutdown.
As the deadline approaches, neither side seems willing to budge. Senate Majority Leader John Thune recently accused Democrats of holding the country hostage with their demands for health care concessions. Speaker Johnson, meanwhile, has maintained that those concessions must be discussed later in the year after a funding resolution is passed.
The deadline is tonight, and lawmakers will likely be working all day to try to avert a shutdown. Let’s pray for wisdom for them, and let’s pray for God’s will to be done!
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(Excerpt from Fox News. Photo Credit: Maryland GovPics – Swearing-In of the 119th Congressional Black Caucus, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=157504266)
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Lord God,
Your Word declares in Psalm 33:12 that blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. We stand on this promise for America and condemn the actions of Democrats who would try to force a government shutdown to block the America First agenda. The Democrat Party chose to open borders, increase taxes and then give free healthcare to illegal aliens, push transgender for everybody, let biological men compete in women’s sports, support crime and lawlessness in our streets, and set cashless bail policies over the safety and security of our nation. They’ve even dragged Trump’s administration into court over his Historic Executive Orders. No matter what, President Trump will continue to drain the swamp, eliminate the Deep State and eradicate the ruling elite and globalists. He’ll transform America into a sacred country with Faith, Freedom and Prosperity. Lord, We ask You to expose every hidden plan meant to weaken our country. Let every scheme of obstruction be dismantled in the light of Your truth. Strengthen our leaders, protect the people, and guide this nation into peace, stability and abundance under Your hand. In Jesus name. Amen
Lord the battle between the political parties will Never be about them but Always about meeting the needs of the people…therefore we come against a spirit of pride, ego, and arrogance that would want to dominate decisions apart from Your Word and Love for the betterment of the lives and concerns of the people. In Jesus The Christ Name, amen.
When we seek, and enquire God first and foremost these issues would not rise up but we have failed to bring God to the negotiation table man has a big ego and so they by pass God and here we are again. We the people are not giving money for the ACA just so the Democrats can spend it on the illegals and themselves. This is not the first shutdown when Newt Gingrich was Speaker of the House he shut the government down twice and we survived. Politician’s need to learn to seek the Lord He hears and He will answer and that’s why I trust Him.
Lord we all declare and decree that there will be NO more funding for abortions and the trans agenda . In the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and by his blood we STAND!!!
I read online that Trump’s administration has already met and decided to cut many offices and jobs of bureaucrats that have needed to go and that this crisis will enable them to do this , so it would be a great way to clean house of many unnecessary positions and people that are not on board with President Trump’s agenda for America. I pray that the Lord’s will be done in this matter and not the willl of man in Jesus’s name.