The US federal government began laying off thousands of officials due to the government shutdown created by the Democrats, the White House announced this Friday.
Staff reductions “have begun,” Russ Vought, the head of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), said on the X network.
Next Wednesday, some 1.3 million active military service members could be added to the list of those affected, and temporarily go without pay, something that has not happened in any of the government shutdowns in modern history.
“We are not in a good mood here at the Capitol, it is a gloomy day. Today marks the first day that federal workers will receive a partial payment check“Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said at a news conference.
The radical left
The belligerent actions of the left do not represent a new panorama. It has happened since the 1960s.
Throughout history, the extreme left – in this case in the US – has created and fomented crises, destruction and chaos whenever there is a conservative government in power, as is the case now.
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the extremism of left-wing radicals peaked between the 1960s and 1980s, such as advocates of communism and environmentalism.
New trends of these groups began to flourish in the 1990s through the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF). From 1996 to 2002, the two were responsible for 600 high-profile criminal acts at a cost of approximately $50 million.
That figure is insignificant in these times, when in 2020 – also during the first term of Trump’s presidency – the damage caused by Antifa, Black Blocs, Black Life Mater and others was billions of dollars throughout the country, especially.
Among its main purposes are the extreme violence and actions as destructive as possible to create panic, insecurity and terror within the population; damage the economy of private companies and local, state and federal governments. Their central focus is not anti-fascism, nor social justice, racism or individual freedoms as they promulgate, but Western capitalism in all its expression and history.
Coordinated actions
As FBI reports have revealed, these groups act in coordination with the inflammatory speech from activists and congressmen of the same ideological tendency such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Hakeem Jeffries, among many others; and with him direct or indirect financing of “progressive” billionaires like George Soros, who in recent days called to actively fight and oppose Trump’s “dictatorship,” after the US president publicly stated that Soros had to be prosecuted for sponsoring domestic terrorism and therefore causing damage to the US for decades.
The funds allow these individuals to remain in action on the streets for weeks or monthsthe majority do not work and the other part are university students or socially alienated people and all manipulated by the great threads of 21st century socialism, the famous “Cultural Marxism”, globalism and its 2030 agenda, the so-called “progressivism” (less progress) and wokism or WOKE trend.
Antiterrorism experts affirm that within these groups, less organized and cohesive than in the past, three ideological classifications proliferate: anarchism; communism-socialism-marxism and autonomous or solitary radicals.
Towards the third week
The actions and strategies of the extreme left in Congress go hand in hand with these groupsand the explicit incentives of the ultra-left or neoliberal mainstream press, against the current of favorable political health and democracy in the United States.
The government budget shutdown, Trump’s executive order declaring Antifa a domestic terrorist organization, Elon Musck’s work leading the DOGE Commission, the assassination of conservative leader Charlie Kirk, and the work of ICE (immigration) agents have given them the necessary fuel to carry out their agenda.
On the one hand, cities governed by the extreme left such as Chicago, Washington DC, New York, Portland, etc. They take the opportunity to add fuel to the fire and seek to destabilize the government of President Donald J. Trump, through the active radicalism of these groups, also made up of “career” criminals.
It’s nothing newthey only need some political reason or social justification to practice extreme violence. It was something that was expected under the Trump administration; hence his agility this time to send the National Guard and quickly stop all the sources of “war” in the country that socialist or “progressive” mayors and governors allow.
Government paralysis heads into third week and Democrats They are not interested in any agreement for now. What they want is for the action of radicals to continue in the streets as another form of pressure on the Trump government and at the same time serve to denounce excessive use of force against supposed “protesters” or far-left mercenaries.
Democrats voted for the sixth time on Wednesday, October 8, against the Republican bill to extend the federal budget until November 21, which would allow the federal government to “reopen.”
The demands of Democrats in Congress correspond to the level of uncontrolled spending, fraud and corruption revealed by the Government Efficiency Commission, led for several months by Elon Musk as an advisor to the President.
The left asks for money for more aid to illegal immigrants, funding for conferences, therapies, treatments and gender reassignment surgeries, even among children and adolescents, in addition to other aberrations of an elite or “Deep State” that acts to achieve the destruction of conservative American society.
No interest in an agreement
Above the impact of the closure for Americans, Democratic senators want the reactivation of funds for supposed “aid” to foreign governments and progressive movements in countries far from Washington’s interest. In short, they demand the restoration of 1.5 trillion dollars eliminated from the federal budget with the bipartisan “One Big Beautiful Bill” law, as it is considered part of the unusual spending waste of the Joe Biden government or those who headed that administration.
Democrats, more than opposition, democracy and bipartisan understanding, believe they still govern in Washington.
Trump has made it very clear:The disaster of the last four years of management of the extreme left is not going to returnat least while he or another conservative government of the same line are in the White House to respond to the will of the people, not to the will of (a handful of senators), who put the unhealthy rejection of his personality, his ideas and the Republicans above national interests.
Regarding health funds, they want the same levels of expenses and programs as during the COVID-19 pandemic. The other purpose is to increase inflation as they did under the Biden government, which increased – like never before in the country’s history – the fiscal and public deficit, the latter to more than 36 trillion dollars.
White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said that “the ‘temporary technical’ layoffs that typically occur during government shutdowns have already begun, but if this goes on too long the layoffs will be an unfortunate consequence.”
Democrats do not seem to be interested in statistics, nor in the effects and consequences, which are already reported in air transport and security.
Impact on aviation
The United States air traffic control agency reported on October 8 of personnel problems at almost a dozen airports due to the government shutdown, which has left hundreds of thousands of federal employees without active pay.
Aviation monitor FlightAware reported around 10,000 flights delayed between Monday and Tuesday of this week. Although this is not considered an unusually high number, the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) warned that problems could get worse.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said at Newark Airport near New York that there was already a “slight” increase nationwide in air traffic controllers calling in sick.
“I want the flights not to be delayed. I don’t want them to be cancelled, but our priorities are safety,” he specified.
“And if we get more sick calls, we will reduce traffic flow at the rate that is safe for the American people.”
So far, the position of Democratic senators in Washington is (extend the shutdown). The only agreement they want is based on zero concessions on your part and they know perfectly well that that will not happen, much less under Trump’s command. His true intentions are directed at cause harm to the economy, federal officials, and non-essential government services and programsbut of help to the Americans.
In particular, the Democrats once again reject the will of the American people who in November demanded by a large majority the measures carried out by the current administration.
More money to continue the waste
Republicans accuse Democrats of shutting down the government because they want taxpayer money to continue wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on purposes far removed from the real needs of the majority of the American population. Perhaps their other interest is to break the record of 35 days of closure in 2018 or at least come close, as they did in Trump’s first term.
For the Democrats, the plan is (to hinder and stop Trump’s work), it is not about medical care in the US as they claim, that is just an alibi before public opinion.
The conservative wing has reiterated that an agreement could be reached on some subsidies (if the government reopens), but the left-wing opposition also seeks to control the executive orders that restrict and have canceled funds for their partisan interests, while Trump is also determined to use the Insurrection Law against the rioters and subversives who sow chaos in the streets of cities governed by the ultra-left.
“This is about fulfilling the will of the people and fiscal health, not about pleasing the extreme left,” spokesperson Leavitt reiterated when asked at the White House if the Republicans would give in to pressure from the opposition.
The head of the Congressional Budget Office, Russel Vought, announced the suspension of federal funding for cities and states governed by Democrats such as New York and Chicago.
From the left wing, the spirit of collaboration with the Republicans is null right now, while some analysts claim that the US economy could slow down by up to 0.2% for each week of closure that passes.
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