Chapter 1: What events led to the government shutdown?
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people. I got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.
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War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bann.
It's Wednesday, 1 October, in the year of our Lord, 2025. You might ask, why no cold open today? Why are you not getting our blood pressure up and having us spit out some of the Warpath coffee? We'd be so angry. Well, we're going to get to all that.
Just the structure of the show today, the government officially shut down at midnight last night, or I guess one minute after midnight, or one second after midnight. We're in a government shutdown. Traditionally... A lot of this has been kabuki theater, except when President Trump shut it down in 18. And then we shut it down in 2013 over Obamacare. So the two big times.
In fact, President Trump's in 18 over the border wall, over Pelosi and Schumer adamantly refusing to, I think it was $5 billion at the time, had the longest government shutdown in history. This is different. Because there's kind of, I think, a method to President Trump's madness here and with Russ Vogt.
Russ Vogt is going up to the Hill today, I believe, to walk through a plan of taking on the administrative state during this period of shutdown. Schumer, who had essentially no leverage and tried to bluff his way, I believe stepped on the rake. And now you have a very energized Trump administration that is going to do here what they were limited structurally from doing before.
There's going to be a press conference on Capitol Hill in a moment between with Majority Leader Thune and the Speaker of the House, the Speaker of the House, Johnson, to walk us through the update. He's done something very smart. Last night he had a couple of votes. Guess what?
A couple of Democrats, or at least the Democrat senator, one of the Democrat senators in Nevada, voted to keep the government open for the clean CR until the 21st of November. And Angus King, who's an independent, basically caucuses with the Democrats. He's really a Democrat who... Too gutless to say I'm a Democrat. Tries to convince people in Maine he's independent.
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Chapter 2: How has past government shutdowns influenced current events?
Almost two weeks ago, the House did our job. In the House, we passed a common sense, nonpartisan bill to keep the government open. Republicans did our job. We had one Democrat join us there, so it was bipartisan. But every other Democrat in the House voted to shut the government down. And last night, 44 Democrats in the Senate did the same thing. This is a clean resolution.
It would simply buy Congress a few more weeks, seven weeks, to finish the job. Why do we need that time? So that appropriators in both parties can finish their work. They've been restoring regular order. They've passed 12 separate bills out of committee in the House, and the Senate has done its work as well. Three bills of the 12 passed in each chamber.
They don't line up exactly, so there's a conference committee constituted the first time in years that that's happened. We just need more time because we ran out of clock at the end of the fiscal year, September 30th. This is very important to note. Democrats themselves have voted to pass a clean bipartisan CR just like this 13 times in the last few years.
During the four years of the Biden administration, 13 times this happened. Republicans did the responsible thing, even when we were in the minority, to keep the government open. And today should be no different. There is nothing new in this legislation. There's no poison pill. There's no partisan tricks. There's no gimmicks whatsoever. The only difference today is the man who is sitting
in the Oval Office. Rather than work with President Trump and Republicans to get this job done, as our party has done repeatedly in the same situation over the years, Democrats want to play political games with the lives and the livelihoods of Americans. The simple truth is Democrats in Congress have dragged our country into another reckless shutdown to satisfy their far-left base.
That is the truth. Whether or not the government remains open or reopens is entirely up to them. There's still time for Democrats to pass this clean bipartisan bill that's sitting before them. And we encourage our Democrat colleagues to do that. I certainly pray they'll come to their senses soon and do the right and responsible thing.
The reason they will have one more opportunity today is because of the sound leadership that is being provided in the U.S. Senate by our colleagues who are standing here with us. This is a joint press conference, as you know, between leadership, Republican leadership in the House and the Senate.
And I'm delighted to yield to my good friend and an extraordinary leader in the Senate, Leader John Thune.
All right. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and our House colleagues for doing the work. You sent us a clean, continuing resolution. Unfortunately, we are here this morning in a government shutdown that Democrats wanted. Chuck Schumer, at the behest of of a bunch of liberal, far-left activist groups has walked his Democrat colleagues into a boxed canyon. There's no way out, folks. There's no way out.
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Chapter 3: What strategies are being discussed to manage the shutdown?
It's on the floor of the Senate. We're going to vote later this morning on this, 24 pages. Does this look partisan? Does this look dirty to you? 24 pages to fund the government. Nothing more, nothing less, nothing else. The House kept it simple. We kept it simple in the Senate.
This is something, as the Speaker noted, that 13 times in the past Senate Democrats have done when they were in the majority and Joe Biden was in the White House. This is a very straightforward issue. It's not complicated. They want it to end. Vote with us to open up the government by voting this out of the Senate today, putting it on President Trump's desk, and he will sign into the law.
President, House Republicans, Senate Republicans, we're all united on this. And what's interesting now is some of the Democrats are joining us. Our vote last night was a bipartisan vote. There were three Democrats that came over and voted with us because they know this strategy is a losing one. And it hurts the American people. It's not about who wins or who loses or who gets blamed in all this.
It's about the American people. And they have taken the American people hostage in a way that they think benefits them politically. but at the consequence and the cost of what's going to happen to the American families if this government shutdown continues. And so I'm glad to be here with our Republican colleagues.
Our Democrat colleagues in the House have been around here the last few days, I guess, flailing around, celebrating, celebrating the fact that they voted to shut down the government. How ironic. This can all end today, folks. It needs to end today.
We will continue to work together with our House counterparts, with the President of the United States, to get this government open again on behalf of the American people. Next up is, there he is, the leader. Thank you, Leader Thune. Today marks day one of the Schumer shutdown. As Speaker Johnson pointed out, this didn't need to happen.
House Republicans came together weeks ago to prevent a government shutdown. We brought as straightforward of a bill as you can have to say let's allow government to be funded for another two months while we negotiate our differences. Clearly we have differences with Democrats right now.
One of the Democrat leaders confirmed yesterday that Democrats shut the government down to fund healthcare for illegal aliens. That is no way to hold the American people hostage over some far-left demand. You know, we had an election in November where the country came together and said, let's send to Washington leaders who want to solve problems and get our country back on track.
And we've been working feverishly to do that, to get this country back on track, to get the economy moving, to lower inflation, to lower interest rates. And Democrats, just to appease their far-left radical base, have been voting no every step of the way. Well, today it has consequences.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the government shutdown on federal workers?
and give the Democrats an opportunity to open the government by passing the continuing resolution, to give us seven weeks to do the appropriations process, to get the government open again. That's what the American people want. It's what the American people deserve. And today we'll see how many Democrats vote with us to end the Schumer shutdown.
And now the whip of the House of Representatives, Tom Emmer.
A government shutdown serves no one.
Government shutdowns unleash chaos on federal workers, delay pay for service members, and weaken our position on the global stage. To hold these people hostage instead of just letting them do their jobs is so wrong. Okay, you see the messaging, the Schumer shutdown. Here's what Schumer is doing this. And here's the reason, because it is a clean CR. As you know, I don't have to tell you.
You hate that. You hate continued resolutions. You're prepared to do it because they got to keep, quote unquote, negotiating. Now, as was it, Andy Biggs. We talked to you the other day. You're going to have a worse calamity come November because they're going to try to force through an omnibus, say, oh, we just got to get this done for a year or a year-long CR.
So the worst is still in front of us, and because the single-subject appropriations, everything we worked for was not done, and a lot of fingers can be pointed, including at the Speaker of the House and other people. We kind of are where we are. But the Democrats have, I think, walked themselves into a trap.
And why they walked themselves into a trap, because please notice I'm going to tie a couple things together here. This is because Schumer and the folks that voted, gave him the 10 votes or the seven votes in March to keep the government open. came under such huge pressure because the Democratic Party has kind of lost reason now. It's not orange man bad anymore.
There's like a psychotic reaction to Trump, and this goes back to the escalating violence of the left, whether it's Mangini or the alleged shooter in Utah or some of the talk you're hearing coming out of New York City. Mandami and his dominance of this New York City race and really the crushing of Cuomo in the more traditional progressive part of the Democratic Party has all these guys on alert.
Schumer's concerned about one thing, Chuck Schumer's political life, because without being a U.S. senator, he's nothing, because you can tell he's a guy of limited intelligence and limited talent. He's being pressed by AOC to his left.
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Chapter 5: How are politicians responding to the shutdown situation?
And I guarantee you that the people in that audience will not execute illegal orders. We've been saying that for a long time. But at the same time, all of them, not only were they personally embarrassed, But they were embarrassed for their services that had, you know, sit in that audience and listen to this kind of stuff. That's the, you know, the worst part of all this.
You know, there's a saying in the military that's a great leadership dictum. You praise in public and you discipline in private. This was a disciplinary approach in public with cameras so the whole nation could see. And it was an attempt at separating the military institution from the people that they defend.
And I don't think it worked very well, but I'm sure there's a lot of people questioning what the military will do next. I'm sure of what they will do next. They will make sure they don't follow illegal orders and maintain their job yesterday.
But Dave, call me a simpleton. Republicans do have a lot to lose. The midterms are around the corner.
Right, but their memory, again, of 2013 is that there was a shutdown. It lasted a while. It was pretty painful. They won the 2014 midterm. In 2018, after the midterm, there was a shutdown over border funding. Trump lost in 2020, but Republicans gained ground in the House. That's not remembered by Republicans as a failure.
That's another reason we've been just piling up moral hazards and reasons that members of Congress are not worried about the long-term politics of this. They're really not. The only... The thing that's new compared to the last shutdowns I talked to is we've got elections in Virginia and New Jersey in a couple of weeks.
And Republicans I talked to said we'd rather the issues there be about the culture and schools and gender policies than a government shutdown because we think that's a better issue for Democrats. But that's pretty minor.
President Trump has said, you know, he could use this as an opportunity to further cut government and turn some of those temporary furloughs into permanent job cuts. Speaker, can you assess what you're expecting in terms of the job cuts and how severe they could be?
Yes. The president and I have talked about this at great length. While a shutdown is very damaging for real American people who depend upon government services, it can provide an opportunity to downsize the scope and the scale of government, which is something that we've all always wanted to do.
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Chapter 6: What role does media play in the narrative surrounding the shutdown?
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Chapter 7: What are the potential long-term effects of the shutdown on government policies?
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I think a couple of three of them would say, hey, Pete, no offense, Army major, right? Bring it. But I don't want to talk about that. I got to talk about the budget shutdown, Russ Vogt, the warrior. Wait, in 13, when Ted Cruz and Mike Lee and a bunch of us, you know, in support, I was at Breitbart at the time, we shut down the government. They shut down the government over Obamacare.
And, man, Mike Lee and Ted Cruz got torn apart. These guys were going to destroy everything. It worked out for us. A big win in 14, predicated upon the messaging that took place. The American people, because there's an opportunity for the nation to kind of ā
focus here and hadn't really heard this because a lot of people as you know don't follow politics same thing in 18 when they stole the election from uh from president trump we picked up on a gross number 14 house seats net 12 this is one of the biggest and you can look in the districts we picked it up you can see where how trump won and had it stolen from so we've had two victories on shutdowns russ vote knows that as well as anybody
But in addition, and I was telling somebody today, I was in a conference room with Russ over at EOB in May of 2017 when Russ Vogt walked through his whole waterfall theory of cash coming in because then on September 30th, two things were going to converge. We were going to have a debt ceiling issue and a government shutdown.
And Russ was already thinking about at the time of what you do with these non-essential employees of the federal government. So this is not a guy who just thought it up last night. Walk us through.
You guys released the Russ Vote budget, I think in 22, as an exclusive on War Room, to walk through how CRA was even at the time thinking about how you deconstruct the administrative state and do it mathematically. Russ Vote is heading up to the Hill, I believe, not to look for sign-off, but I think President Trump and Russ want to keep the Hill in the loop about what they're prepared to do.
What would that be, sir, in your best thinking?
Well, first, it's amazing what can happen if you have principled leadership on your side who is articulating a stance instead of proactively going out and blaming themselves and handing the victory to Democrats. So we're in a different paradigm. I think that's important. Number two, you're correct. So Russ has spent years looking at the federal budget.
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Chapter 8: How can listeners stay informed about ongoing developments?
And Russ is kind of in the lead tank. And I hope that he's unleashed this afternoon to go through really the administrative state and say, hey, look, it's essential, non-essential, and we're just going to have to cut the non-essential. Do you think that that is a possibility, sir?
I think it's a high likelihood. It's a complex political strategy here in trying to get to Democrats voting for a clean CR. So if that's their priority, then they're probably thinking through this strategically of what will be step one, step two, step three to kind of help push them in that direction. If they just don't want to go in that direction, then we could get into step 14, 15, 100.
And we've already seen an announcement from OMB Director Russ Vogt that they're cutting $18 billion in infrastructure spending in New York to make sure that it is not funding DEI, which, of course, is systemic racism, which gets back to your point. We no longer have a Democrat Party. We have a neo-Marxist party that's focusing on identitarian politics.
And so they're cutting that funding, and we'll see over the coming hours how much more Democrats want to watch this happen helplessly.
No, and this is, I think, great that Russ is putting people on notice. I love the fact first tweet. This is infrastructure that's needed. Collectively, people realize I think this is for rejuvenation of some of the tunnels, bridges. I mean, this is entrance and egress from from New York City, from the Manhattan that's needed. Everybody concurs with what Russ is saying.
Hey, we're not playing games anymore. You guys still have all this DEI madness. You've got all this woke madness. We're not doing this, okay? President Trump, and that's why the address yesterday to the flag officers. President Trump is putting people on notice. We're not playing games.
When I want something done and I realize the institution of the uniformed services in the Pentagon, you're going to take a trenching tool and dig out DEI and all this woke madness and climate. But Russ, as the organizer, he's the linchpin between ā The kind of legislation in the executive branch and programmatically how it gets spent. Russ is a guy that has limited capacity for nonsense.
And I think what he did today in New York City was absolutely brilliant. Say, look, sorry, not sorry. We're not doing this anymore. And he's going to put people on notice and we've got to go to court. You'll go to court and they're going to win in court. Wait, talk to me before I let you go. Oh, go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. No, jump in there.
Well, he has the ability to do this with a scalpel at large scale. So what do I mean by that is he can get into thousands of different programs with a scalpel to have this impact, woke, weaponized, and wasteful government spending while minimizing the impact on the American people. And there's probably no one else on the planet that can do that as good as Russ Vogt.
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