Hello there, happy Wednesday and welcome to another episode of the Chuck Toddcast. It is October 1st, and apparently what that means, it's October 1st, 2025. Do you know if your government's open? Well, the answer is there are portions of the government not open today. What does it mean? Well,

you heard if you heard my last monologue about this, you know this is a manufactured moment.

This is a created political, a manufactured political drama based on legal interpretations of two justice departments that go back to the Carter

and Reagan era and a whole bunch of members of Congress who claim they don't like these

shutdowns but have refused to pass legislation that actually would make these showdowns moot.

So I'm not going to bother to rehash that, but it really bothers me.

I saw that New York Times did a story about sort of, oh, we've had 50 years of this polarizing

and sort of didn't sort of glossed over the fact that this is simply an interpretation.

There's no law on the Constitution that says the government is open or closed on October 1st,

depending on when you pass appropriations bills.

This is essentially a decision that people in power made in order to create a point of drama or leverage, apparently, for no particular good that's come

from it, right?

This has just been a disaster.

And I think this is the challenge that Democrats have being the instigators of this, which is

for my entire adult lifetime, it has been the Republicans that have been the instigators of the shutdown.

We've had these.

It was when there was a Democratic president that we had it in the 90s, Democratic president when we had it during Obama.

It is with Trump.

That's the first time we've had this with a Republican president.

Now, the first time it was Republican. This is now the second time we've had a shutdown with Trump. That's the first time we've had this with a Republican president. Now, the first time it was

Republican. This is now the second time we've had a shutdown with Trump as president and Republicans

in charge of both the House and the Senate. Now, because of the filibuster, and I'm going to get to

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