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And You Thought Schumer<\/em> <\/strong>Was Upset<\/a>
\nA mere whisper of taxpayer savings has Democrats struggling to keep their composure.<\/p>\n

Several days after the Congressional Budget Office reported that the highly indebted United States Government ran up another trillion dollars of deficit spending in just the first five months of this fiscal year, senators are refusing to pass another spending bill without deep cuts to the federal bureaucracy. Just kidding. Democrats in the Senate are threatening to close the government unless Republicans agree to leave the bureaucracy completely undisturbed.<\/div>\n
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No, this column can\u2019t explain the logic of that position, either. While taxpayers still yearn for some modest fiscal responsibility in Washington, the Senate minority is discussing how to prevent any of the government streamlining that voters endorsed only a few months ago.<\/div>\n
And it was only Monday of this week when the Congressional Budget Office\u00a0explained\u00a0<\/a>once again the size of the hole politicians are still digging with this year\u2019s spending:<\/div>\n

The federal budget deficit totaled $1.1 trillion in the first five months of fiscal year 2025, the Congressional Budget Office estimates. That amount is $319 billion more than the deficit recorded during the same period last fiscal year. Revenues were $37 billion (or 2 percent) higher, and outlays were $356 billion (or 13 percent) higher.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The House-passed bill does almost nothing to change this disgraceful state of the fisc, but even though Republicans have agreed to keep spending recklessly, Senate Democrats are upset about the way some of the dollars may be spent\u2014as well as the faint possibility that a few taxpayer dollars somewhere in federal budgets may somehow not be spent at all. Terrifying, right?<\/div>\n
In the Washington Post Theodoric Meyer, Liz Goodwin and Marianna Sotomayor\u00a0report<\/a>:<\/div>\n

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) is under growing pressure to unite Senate Democrats as his party agonizes \u2014 loudly and publicly \u2014 over whether to trigger a government shutdown in less than 36 hours, or side with Trump and his allies on a potentially unpopular bill.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Schumer announced Wednesday afternoon that not enough Democrats supported Republicans\u2019 funding bill \u2014 known as a continuing resolution, or CR\u00a0\u2014\u00a0to overcome a filibuster. The federal government is set to shut down at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday unless lawmakers pass a bill to keep it open, leaving Democrats in a political quandary.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re in a really terrible position,\u201d Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minnesota) said Thursday at a Politico event.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Aishah Hasnie at Fox News\u00a0reports on X<\/a>\u00a0from outside a meeting of Democratic senators, including the junior senator from New York:<\/div>\n

[Kirsten Gillibrand] is screaming so loud we can all hear it through the thick wood doors\u2026Keeps yelling at her colleagues about a shutdown.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ms. Hasnie adds:<\/div>\n

Obviously \u2013 press who heard it believes it was [Sen. Gillibrand] based on the voice. We could not *see* her.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ms. Hasnie and colleagues\u00a0report<\/a>:<\/div>\n

Gillibrand\u2019s office said it could not confirm she was the person screaming when reached by Fox News Digital.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s not a denial but perhaps we shouldn\u2019t jump to conclusions on the identity of the backroom howler. It\u2019s also possible that a second screamer theory could emerge.<\/div>\n
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Congressional tantrums aside, does any of this Beltway angst come close to the outrage taxpayers feel at being treated in this manner? Niall Ferguson\u00a0recently observed<\/a>\u00a0in the Journal what happens historically to countries that allow the costs of government debt service to rise above defense spending, as has now occurred in the U.S.<\/div>\n
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From Habsburg Spain to Bourbon France to Czarist Russia and beyond, there are not a lot of happy endings.<\/div>\n
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Perhaps more screaming needs to be directed at U.S. lawmakers from outside those thick wooden doors.<\/div>\n

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