Trump’s says no talk on the 2026 Budget which means a Government shutdown

By Donald A. Collins | 29 September 2025
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It’s now clear that Trump’s stonewalling of the Democrats on the looming budget crisis means we are going to have a shutdown.

Of course, it will be very difficult to say who gets the full political blame for any shutdown, but we have heard from a number of people on the Democrat side that this has changed completely from the earlier willingness of minority Senate chairman Schumer to go along with approval. Since that time there have been a number of Actions by Trump, which could change the attitude.

You can read an interesting article dated September 26, headline “ Voters say they’ll blame Republicans more for a government shut down”.

The article it says “it now looks very likely that the US government will run out of discretionary funds and enter shutdown mode next Tuesday, September 30. This means the stripping back of many “non-essential” government services, including things like the park service closing most offices, federal, museums, shutting down delays in new drug clearances at FTA hiring glaze for air traffic controllers, as well as the furlough of millions of federal workers some of them forced to go to work without pay. Trump’s director of LMB Russell Vought VOUGHT has also said he’ll use the occasion to recommend permanent reductions enforce for thousands of employees across the government. Social Security and Medicare are still funded through a shutdown.”

Well, let’s see but the article that argues the GOP will be harmed more than the Democrats can be read here.

Naturally, that will give both parties an opportunity to blame each other, and the division between governance and chaos continues.

After the Jimmy Kimmel disaster for the GOP on free speech, which Trump has now solidly failed to explain even to his MAGA group, the Jeffrey Epstein files release roadblocks get even more damaging.

On September 27 Helens Cox Richardson noted “The Republicans have been slow walking the release of those files since news broke that they mention President Donald J. Trump, a close friend of Epstein during the years of his sex trafficking. The batch of documents includes phone message logs, flight logs and manifests, and Epstein’s daily schedule.”

Ho ho ho Donald. This delay could last a long time but if it gets to be Christmas it won’t be a happy time like riding in a one horse open sleigh bringing gifts to your GOP collaborators since it will be evident that you have been riding to fun times in Jeffrey Epstein’s airplane to his private island.

Richardson continues to add to Trump’s guilt by noting that anti-democracy

Billionaire Peter Thiel, who financially supported Vice President J.D. Vance’s Senate campaign, and Trump ally Steve Bannon had scheduled meetings with Epstein. And they show that Elon Musk had a pending trip to Epstein’s private island.

Trump responded hours later by ordering his administration to declassify and release all government records related to…Amelia Earhart. Earhart was an early American aviator, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. On July 2, 1937, she disappeared over the Pacific Ocean. Her disappearance and presumed death have fascinated people ever since.

But these are not the files most Americans are seeking right now.

Since yesterday, Trump has been active on social media. He has warned pregnant women in all caps: “DON’T USE TYLENOL UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY, DON’T GIVE TYLENOL TO YOUR YOUNG CHILD FOR VIRTUALLY ANY REASON, BREAK UP THE MMR SHOT INTO THREE TOTALLY SEPARATE SHOTS (NOT MIXED!), TAKE CHICKEN P SHOT SEPARATELY, TAKE HEPATITAS [sic] B SHOT AT 12 YEARS OLD, OR OLDER, AND, IMPORTANTLY, TAKE VACCINE IN 5 SEPARATE MEDICAL VISITS!”

Trump is not a doctor. His recommendations appear to come from the secretary of health and human services he appointed, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is neither a doctor nor a scientist. The danger of giving medical advice without expertise shows: among other things, the MMR—measles, mumps, and rubella—vaccine is not available in three separate shots.

Trump has demanded that Microsoft fire its global affairs president, Lisa Monaco, who as deputy attorney general in the Biden administration helped coordinate the response of the Department of Justice to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters. Trump posted on social media that Monaco is “a menace to U.S. National Security, especially given the major contracts that Microsoft has with the United States Government.”

Trump has claimed the FBI placed “274 FBI Agents into the Crowd just prior to, and during, the January 6th Hoax,” “probably acting as Agitators and Insurrectionists,” noting that this “is different from what Director Christopher Wray stated, over and over again!” He went on: “Christopher Wray, the then Director of the FBI, has some major explaining to do. That’s two in a row, Comey and Wray, who got caught LYING.”

In fact, a report from the Department of Justice inspector general shows that there were no undercover FBI agents at the January 6 riots. There were 26 confidential human sources who worked with the FBI during the events, but the inspector general found that none were “authorized by the FBI to enter the Capitol or a restricted area or to otherwise break the law on January 6, nor was any CHS directed by the FBI to encourage others to commit illegal acts on January 6.”

When people pointed out that Trump himself appointed Wray, he posted: “For those who are interested, and there aren’t many of you, Christopher Wray was recommended to me by Sloppy Chris Christie when Chris was in my “good graces”—which was a very long time ago!”

There is so much anti-democracy, anti-US Constitutional rhetoric Trump exudes that even the dullest voters among us, well of course, didn’t have any civics classes as I reported in my previous article, may even still miss where Trump has already almost succeeded in taking us.

Will it be the late-night comedians that make Trump look sillier and sillier save us? Doesn’t everybody know I understand how completely absorbed and focused on bringing retribution to two alleged enemies. It has long seemed to me that the nation’s retribution should be focused on using Trump’s January 6/20/21 attempt at a coup, which was his attack on the US Capitol, to convict Trump and sentence him to jail where he belongs. No thanks to that wonderful majority Senate leader Mitch McConnell, who failed to lead an indictment of Trump at that time and, of course, turned the US Supreme Court into a long-term pro-Trump lap dog.

Former US Navy officer, banker and venture capitalist, Donald A. Collins, a free lance writer living in Washington, DC, has spent over 60 years working for women’s reproductive health as a board member and/or officer of numerous family planning organizations including Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Guttmacher Institute, Family Health International and Ipas. Yale under graduate, NYU MBA. He is the author of “From the Dissident Left: A Collection of Essays 2004-2013”, “Trump Becoming Macbeth: Will our democracy survive?”, “We Humans Overwhelm Our Earth: 11 or 2 Billion by 2100?”, “What Can Be Done Now to Save Habitable Life on Planet Earth?”, “Vote”, “Can Homo Sapiens Survive?”, “Will Choice and Democracy Win?”, “Can Our U.S. Survive 8 Plus Billion of Us”, “Economic Growth: A Cancer on all Earthly Life”, “On the Precipice of Political Disaster in 2024”, “Democracy at Red State Risk”, “Does Trump Go to Jail or to The Oval Office?”, “Trump: Pardon or Punish?: The Nixon Precedence Was Not A Trump Coup Denied!”, “Common Sense: When will Trump be Impeached, Indicted, and Exited?” and “Trump–unrestrained dangerous liar!”.

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