Katie Phang: Dem Senators STUN Party With SHOCKING SHUTDOWN Vote!?

"BREAKING: 8 Senate Democrats voted with Senate Republicans late last night on a handshake deal to break the government funding impasse. Katie Phang with the facts and details about this agreement, who was a part of the deal, and what is next for Americans." 

Source:Katie Phang & her favorite POTUS of 2025. That's a half-joke.

From Katie Phang

Just to see how many people I can put to asleep (especially insomniacs) I'm going to share with you where The New Democrat and its members have been the last 6 weeks or so on this government shutdown. Just to show that we've always been against the AOC/Schumer shutdown strategy and why. For the people who are able to stay wake after reading all this big government jargon. 

9/26/2205

"So, under The Anti-Deficiency Act, when the government shutdowns, the executive branch, under The White House and Office of Management Budget, gets to decide who is essential and who is nonessential, when it comes to the federal workforce. Meaning, who gets to show up to work, who has to stay home, who has to show up and work for free, during the shutdown. 

In case anyone who sees this, was born last night, (and if you are able to read before you even reach 1 day old, I'm fairly impressed) Donald John Trump is currently President of the United States and Russell Vought is currently the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Do you really want these two "gentlemen" in charge of what stays open and is closed, who gets to go to work, who stays home, who has to work for free, during a government shutdown? 

Mr. Vought is 1 of the chief authors of Project 2025, which is a document that lays out how a President Trump could claim and use more executive authority, then the Constitution currently gives the President of the United States. And how they could essentially get away with that. Is this who you want in charge of the government shutdown in Washington? 

At least if Congress passed a government funding bill, (whatever you actually think of the actual bill) there are laws there that the courts can protect, requiring the executive branch to spend this amount of money, with this amount of workers in place enforcing those spending requirements. But put Trump and Vought in charge, thanks to your shutdown, there's no one left in place who could even try to hold the President and OMB accountable during a shutdown... 

From The New Democrat

10/02/2025

"Because Leader Schumer made the right decision not to shut down the government in March, the so-called Squad (which most of the time looks no more professional and experienced than the Columbia chapter of Students For a Democratic Society) threatens his job and tells him he has to step down, or face a primary challenge... probably from U.S. Representative Alexandria O. Cortez in 2028. She's probably not just the most popular and powerful Socialist, inside of Congress right now (sorry, Senators Sanders and Warren) but probably the most powerful and popular Socialist outside of Congress as well. 

So the reason why the government is shut down right now, even though it gives the power to the President to cut and layoff at will as many people as he wants, during the shutdown, because 75 year old Chuck Schumer (who has been in Congress since 1981, served 9 terms in the House, now in his 5th term in the Senate) is worried about losing his job 3 years from now. So this is just 1 reason why The New Democrat is calling this government shutdown, the Schumer shutdown. Because it's not based on what's good for the country, or even the Democratic Party next year, but what's good for Chuck Schumer's political future...

From The New Democrat

10/14/2025

"So look, the Kyle Kulinski's, the Ron Filipkowski's, MSNBC talk can argue all they want that "they were just going to do this anyway" when it comes to the mass Federal layoffs, firings, forcing people to work for free, etc. But what they don't understand, or won't admit, is because of Chuck Schumer's led government shutdown here, Congress has just given The White House permission and Congressional authority, to do what Kyle Kulinski says they would've done anyway. 

But if the government was fully funded right now, the The White House wouldn't legally be able to fire, layoff, and force work for no pay all these workers, people making maybe $50,000-100,000 a year, without Congressional authorization... 

From The New Democrat

I'll get into what I really want to say here. But I just have 1 short comment about what Katie Phang said here in her video. And then I'll move off of that faster a mouse walking on a hot stove. 

So this is from Katie Phang: 

"Hey friends, it''s November 10, 2025. Today I woke up feeling like I've been betrayed... stunned and had such a tangible, palpable sense, a change and a pit of energy, over what was a resounding trouncing of Republicans last Tuesday... a rebuke, a reputation of Trump and the Republicans last Tuesday. And yet I now sit here in front of you, spending this time with you, frustrated, overwhelmed... un and being betrayed...

So, look, Katie Phang could just being doing her own personal tryout for whatever is the next hit, left-wing, TV talk show, that might be on the horizon in the future. Or she's completely blowing this out of proportion. Because she sounds like 1 of those die hard sports fans, who are freaking out about their team just trading away their franchise player and getting nothing in return. (From the fan's perspective) 

I have news for Katie Phang. The U.S. Government is not a football game, or any other game. Sure, there are partisan political games that are played in Washington every day of the year. Actually, you might struggle to get though an hour without seeing some political game that is being played between Democrats and Republicans, just on Capitol Hill alone. But government is not a game. It's not supposed to be anyway. Everything that government does(for good and bad) can and generally does effect the lives of every American. 

It might sound cool to say: "Yeah man... we can shut down the government indefinitely, man. Until they give us what they want. And while we're waiting for Hell to freeze over in Alaska, in January... this is our stand against the man, man. Yeah, man... this would make us the biggest badasses and rockstars on campus, man". 

I know I'm politically and culturally stereotyping here. There might be 1 American leftist who is not a left-wing hippie. (Or if you prefer, hipster) And I apologize to that person, if that's the case. But it makes my point. Government shutdowns are really bad for any person who relies on government to support themselves. That includes everyone: 

who doesn't make enough money to support themselves 

or people who are unemployed 

government workers who are currently working for free, as well 

as well as government retirees

people who rely on the Postal Service to get their pension checks, or their lifesaving medicine. 

And the Left can argue that if we don't leave the government shutdown, people who rely on ObamaCare subsides, won't be able to afford their health insurance next year. And that's true. But what's to stop the President and the Republican Congress from saying no to that and leaving the government shut down, indefinitely? Or, just going nuclear on this very shutdown and just end it with 51 votes? 

The nuclear option in the Senate, was probably next, if those 8 Senate Democrats didn't agree to this deal to reopen the government. And then how would the Left respond to that? I guess they couldn't blame Democrats for that 1, had it happened. 

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