It's Wednesday, October 1st, 2025.

Shutdown it is then.

Turns out deportations are still popular and more dispatches from Iowa.

Next on the AM update.

Well, Democrats have chosen the way of pain, at least for now.

Here's Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who was presented with a clean continuing resolution to fund the government for a little while longer without, you know, funding for meatball surgeries in the name of gender and free health care for illegals.

They're going to be the ones that have to explain at midnight tonight why the government is shut down.

It's just, it's really pretty straightforward.

And this is something, again, that's been routine around here for a long time

until all of a sudden the far left, the Senator Barrasso pointed out,

hijacked the Democrat leadership here in the Senate,

and they've decided to hijack the American people

and hold them hostage to try and get a laundry list,

a wish list, a Christmas list of their left-wing priorities attached, in their case, to a four-week continuing resolution.

Ours is seven weeks, but they'll have the same leverage seven weeks from now that they have today.

And as I've said before, we're happy to sit down with leverage seven weeks from now that they have today.

And as I've said before, we're happy to sit down with them and talk about the concerns they have, the issues they have.

So in the event of a government shutdown, this individual becomes one of the most powerful

people in Washington, D.C. that would be the director of the Office for Management and Budget

Russ votes.

So we have the authority to make permanent change to the bureaucracy here in government.

And I think the takeaway for the American people is that we are on the brink of a government shutdown that is caused entirely by Democrats based on their outrageous demands of about $1.5 trillion.

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