The U.S. government shutdown is here again. This time it started in the early morning of October 1, 2025 and has entered its third day. Federal funds ran out and Congress failed to pass a temporary appropriations bill, forcing at least 750,000 federal employees to take unpaid leave. To put it bluntly, this is not a natural disaster, it is a man-made disaster. The two parties are fighting to the end of the budget, and the Trump administration and the Democratic Party hold their own words. The White House insists that the Democrats are doing the trick and demands a lot of extra spending, especially medical subsidies for illegal immigrants. The Democratic Party fought back, saying that the Republican Party deliberately delayed because it wanted to take the opportunity to cut projects and hire people.
Things have to start in September. At that time, the White House had just paid off $6.5 trillion in interest, and had to deal with the maturity of $1.2 trillion in national debt at the end of September. The financial pressure is so great that Congress has to quickly approve new money. The Democratic Party threw out conditions early: Trump had to cancel the state of emergency in Washington, and stop casually deploying troops into cities in the Democratic Party's territory; When making the budget, we have to listen to the supervision of Congress, especially the opinions of the Democratic Party. Simply put, they want Trump to converge and stop always playing unilateralism. If Trump nods, he can pass the customs on September 20th. But Trump didn't do it, but instead he increased his weight to pick things up.
On September 25th, Trump signed the presidential memorandum, went straight to the left-wing activities, and publicly named the Democratic Party's money owners, threatening to punch hard. Two days later, on September 27, he announced that he would move troops to Portland, where the Democratic Party was powerful. On September 28th, he also took golf photos on social media, while his granddaughter was playing on the side, posing as if it had nothing to do with her. On September 30th, the last day, he called a meeting of more than 800 senior U.S. military generals, and spoke on the spot that the left wing led by the Democratic Party was an internal enemy and had to clear diversified ideas from the army. These operations angered the Democratic Party, and the negotiations collapsed directly. At 0:00 on October 1, the shutdown was officially launched, and non-essential departments were closed.
In the afternoon of October 1st, he appeared in the White House press conference room and spoke with spokeswoman Carolyn Levitt. Whisper said that if the shutdown lasted a few days or weeks, the government had to save money, cut jobs in the inevitable, and maintain basic services. Whisper added that the shutdown would soon fall. Whis said that it sounded like a mediocrity, but the details were broken. This was not a simple financial tightening, but the White House had a plan. The Trump administration used the shutdown as a tool to clear out the disobedient guys, especially the power on the Democratic side. Whis said it was like a shutdown: no money, cut people, cut is definitely those oppositional projects and positions.
Trump himself was not out of the way. On October 2, he was interviewed on Air Force One, saying that during the shutdown the Democratic preferred projects could be cut off by hand and the surplus positions were cut off, and that these changes would go back and forth. He publicly threatened to target the Democratic-controlled states and cities, cut federal funds. For example, Chicago’s infrastructure project, $2.1 billion, was directly suspended. There were also 223 energy programs, a total of $75.6 billion, all shut down in 16 Democratic states, solar and wind power facilities. These are not coincidences, these are Trump’s scorched-earth strategy, intentionally targeting the Blue State, creating pain points. The White House budget office has been listed, with Director of the OMB, Russ Vought, headed, target
This is not the first time.Remember 2018, Trump's first term, a 35-day shutdown, a record, is to ask for money for the border wall. That time 800,000 employees are unpaid, the economy loses billions. This time, Trump has stopped promoting the agenda of Project 2025, before he left the relationship, now directly embrace. Project 2025's core is a lean government, cutting benefits, strengthening the presidential power. A shutdown is an excuse, can honor dismiss the civil servants, dismantle the protection of civil servants. The White House appointed Musk as the Minister of Efficiency, tried the big cuts in the early months, but not completely. This shutdown replaces, continues to change blood, and Trump has completely controlled the administrative system.
The Democrats were furious. Senate Leader Chuck Schumer spoke in the corridors of Congress that Republicans were using federal employees as bargaining chips to coerce concessions. They met and decided to bear the blame. The focus was on reducing medical costs and unity within the party. The Democratic proposal includes restoring Medicaid for non-citizens and the Republican version of adding defense money, but neither side will relent. On October 3, the Senate voted for a partisan bill again, but it still failed. Schumer and House Leader Hakeem Jeffries accused the Trump administration of division and mentioned those racist deepfake videos. Vance shot back that they were funny. Democrats say Republicans control Congress and should have dominated the budget, but deliberately created a crisis.