- Republicans Just Abandoned The Bipartisan DACA Deal And Democrats Are Threatening To Shut Down The Government https://www.buzzfeed.com/paulmcleod/republicans-abandon-bipartisan-daca-deal-and-democrats-are?utm_term=.jxodaj4wy#.iib9qdpd5 78 comments politics
- Republicans Are Trying To Figure Out How Not To Shut Down Government At Christmas https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/republicans-government-shutdown_us_5a284175e4b02d3bfc37be61?3so 31 comments politics
- 15 Republicans Who Will Shut The Government Down If They Don’t Get Their Way http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/07/24/2351171/15-gop-senators-pledge-government-shutdown 155 comments politics
- Top Republicans struggle to persuade Trump not to shut down the government https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/top-republicans-struggle-to-persuade-trump-not-to-shut-down-the-government/2018/12/17/ed3e402e-0219-11e9-b6a9-0aa5c2fcc9e4_story.html 51 comments politics
- Key Republican vows to shut down government unless Congress funds Trump’s border wall https://thinkprogress.org/freedom-caucus-border-wall-shutdown-6d3a8a264f0c 32 comments politics
- Boehner comes up with a new explanation for why Republicans shut down the government http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/04/1244123/-boehner-comes-up-with-a-new-explanation-for-why-republicans-shut-down-the-government 4 comments politics
- Defending tea party delusions, Republicans shut down government http://www.latimes.com/opinion/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-republicans-shut-down-20130930,0,2380001.story 14 comments politics
- Will Republicans Shut Down The Government? Haven't They Basically Done That Already. http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/78273/will-republicans-shut-down-the-government 7 comments politics
- Republicans Are Preparing to Shut Down the Government Out of Anti-Immigrant Spite http://reason.com/blog/2018/01/19/dreamers-are-a-chip-in-the-gops-governme 75 comments politics
- Tea Party to Republicans: Shut Down the Government, or You're a Sellout http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114229/tea-party-wants-government-shutdown-over-obamacare 256 comments politics
- Republican leaders vow to shut down the government unless Obamacare is defunded. http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/07/conservatives-desperately-move-to-shut-down-government-over-obamacare.php 5 comments politics
- Republican Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (TN) Promotes Shutting Down The Government: It's A 'Good Thing' http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/01/14/1443371/gop-rep-promotes-shutting-down-the-government-its-a-good-thing/ 16 comments politics
- Rep. Joe Walsh: Republicans ‘Will Do What We Have To Do, To Shut Down The Government If We Have To’ http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/17/walsh-govt-shutdown/ 5 comments reddit.com
- GOP Senator: Republicans Need To Be Prepared To Shut Down The Government Over Debt Ceiling Fight http://www.mediaite.com/tv/gop-senator-republicans-need-to-be-prepared-to-shut-down-the-government-over-debt-ceiling-fight/ 30 comments politics
- House Republicans Have 'No Plans' To Shut Down The Government Over Obamacare Again http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/02/obamacare-repeal-_n_4372544.html 6 comments politics
- Mike Lee: Republicans Will Shut Down Government To Block Obamacare http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/22/mike-lee-obamacare_n_3634456.html?utm_hp_ref=politics 7 comments politics
- Republicans, failing to learn from history, are again floating the idea of shutting down the federal government http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/sen-cornyn-it-may-be-necessary-to-partially 82 comments politics
- House Republicans To Boehner: If We Can't Repeal Obamacare, Shut Down The Government http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/07/25/581901/house-republicans-obamacare-funding/ 35 comments politics
- The White House is urging Senate Democrats to compromise with House Republicans to avoid a government shut down - which could happen 1 week from today... http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~r/cbsnewsvideo/~3/mfxgbl4qv1s/ 3 comments politics
- Should Obama Reveal His Inner Pissed-Off President? - With a government shut-down looming, it might be time for the chief executive to tell voters what he really thinks of the House Republicans. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/09/government-shutdown-boehner-obama-congress 240 comments politics
- Sean Hannity: Republicans Need To Shut Down Government 'Until The President Cuts Spending' http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/10/sean-hannity-republicans-shut-down-government-president-cuts-spending_n_2446941.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003&ir=politics 11 comments politics
- House Republicans have made a move to avert government shut down — for at least a week http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/4/27/15436948/house-government-shut-down-cr 8 comments politics
- An explosive confrontation brewing between the House Republican leadership and conservatives over Planned Parenthood is threatening to shut down the government for the second time in three years. http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/house-gop-leaders-congress-avoid-shutdown-government-121687.html 16 comments politics
- Round 2 of Republican hostage taking begins: Republican Senator says if Democrats don't agree to cuts in Medicare benefits, they'll shut down the government. http://boldprogressives.org/pat-toomey-if-democrats-dont-agree-to-cut-medicare-benefits-well-shut-down-the-government/?source=reddit-politics 473 comments politics
- Republicans shut down NSA reform bill, blocking legislation that would limit the government's sweeping domestic spying powers http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/nsa-reform-stalls-rand-paul-votes-no-20141118 9 comments politics
- American Conservatives, American Republicans: Enablers of systemic economic FRAUD, busting labor unions, TAXING the poor, War on Women, shutting down the U.S. Government, petty ideological battles; how much are you going to take America? http://my.firedoglake.com/karenm/2011/04/08/womb-envy-government-shutdown-threatened-by-republicans-over-planned-parenthood/ 17 comments politics
- Republicans, for fuck's sake learn to use Google. Your tax dollars are not paying for abortions. Planned Parenthood charges $350–$950 for an abortion. You're shutting down the government over NOTHING. http://www.plannedparenthood.org/health-topics/abortion/in-clinic-abortion-procedures-4359.asp 217 comments politics
- Ted Cruz: "From day one, I’ve been willing to work with anyone, Republicans or Democrats. I don't think we should have shut down the government." Last week, at the Aspen Institute’s Washington Ideas Forum, Cruz said the 16-day government shutdown last month was “worth it.” http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/190882-cruz-dems-o-care-bills-designed-to-cover-their 177 comments politics
- Media Matters showcases examples of conservative pundits who originally encouraged Republicans to shutdown the government but are now outraged at Democrats for shutting down the government. http://mediamatters.org/research/2013/10/09/selective-outrage-and-the-right-wing-noise-mach/196381 5 comments politics
- House Spends $40,000 on New Member Pins as Republicans Fume Over Spending. Republicans, some of whom are threatening to shut down the government over excessive spending, ditched their identification pins a year early and bought new ones in different colors. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/12/us/politics/house-member-pins.html 14 comments economy
- Republicans weigh government shutdown to stop Obama on immigration: One Republican leader on Sunday held open the possibility that his party could move to shut down the government in an attempt to stop President Barack Obama from taking executive action on immigration policy. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/16/us-usa-immigration-congress-iduskcn0j00u320141116 16 comments politics
- Less than two days after the government shut down, 17 Republicans have come forward as of Wednesday afternoon to say they're ready to pass a bill to fund the government with no strings attached -- the magic number needed to pass a clean funding bill. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/02/clean-funding-bill_n_4031784.html 692 comments politics
- WSJ Editorial: If Republicans insist that any spending bill must defund ObamaCare, then a showdown is inevitable that shuts down much of the government. Kamikaze missions rarely turn out well, least of all for the pilots. http://online.wsj.com/article/sb10001424127887323846504579073083671216784.html?mod=trending_now_2 4 comments politics
- Sen. John McCain: "Republicans ought to understand if we shut down the government, Congress always gets blamed–rightly or wrongly–Congress gets blamed. We've seen the movie before. It's just some of them weren't around at the time; I was." http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/09/16/mccain-to-house-republicans-dont-shut-down-government/ 145 comments politics
- Minnesota's state government shuts down many non-essential services after the Democrat governor and Republican legislators disagreed on tax hikes and budget cuts needed to cover the states' $5 billion deficit. Each side is blaming the other. http://news.yahoo.com/minnesota-shutdown-prompts-political-blame-game-113739818.html 3 comments politics
- Let your friends know that Tea Bag Republicans are willing to shut down the government for a plan that could eliminate 700,000 new jobs and result in up to 40,000 more abortions by defunding Planned Parenthood. http://www.plannedparenthoodnj.org/library/topic/planned_parenthood/five_ways_prevent_abortion 6 comments politics
- In 1994, losing the Congress was not good for Clinton. The Republican Congress impeached him. They harassed him. They refused to confirm many of his judges. They shut down the government. ... Expect the new House to be even more partisan; even more extreme; even more mean-spirited. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-begala/a-centrist-democratic-age_b_777955.html 206 comments politics
- Republicans reject government shutdown as a viable option for immigration reform "Republican lawmakers overwhelmingly agreed on Sunday talk shows that shutting down the government to avoid unilateral action by President Barack Obama on immigration is not a good option" http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/16/politics/republicans-government-shutdown-immigration/ 26 comments politics
- Why Republicans Shut Down the Government: To evangelical and Tea Party Republicans, "Washington looks nothing like the capital many others see. Gridlock? There is no gridlock. Only a socialist steamroller before which the Republican Party is feeble and afraid." http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2013-10-04/why-republicans-shut-down-the-government.html 5 comments politics
- Senator Tom Coburn (R) from Oklahoma blasts government shutdown as nonsensical political strategy: “When you start getting into military pay, that’s serious.... We’ll fold like hot cakes if they shut down. Republicans will." http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-republicans-to-propose-one-year-delay-in-obamacare/2013/09/28/1e884de6-2859-11e3-9256-41f018d21b49_story.html 10 comments politics