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The Speaker's Room, Washington, D.C., October 10, 2025. I hereby designate the period from Tuesday, October 14, 2025, through Sunday, October 19, 2025, as a district work period under Clause 13 of Rule 1. Signed sincerely, Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Pursuant to Clause 13 of Rule 1, the House stands adjourned until 2 p.m. Tuesday, October 14, 2025.
Tough day of work there for the MAGA Republican Congress members going on a paid vacation. They got to take that gavel up and then they got to knock the gavel down. They gavel out. They send their members on vacation. Pretty much the whole summer, MAGA Republicans were on vacation because they wanted to leave to avoid talking about the release of the Epstein files.
And now they're not working during a government shutdown while American people are suffering. Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz, I think outlined the absurdity and the offensiveness of what MAGA Republicans have been doing with all of their vacations and just not working while they're destroying American lives. He did it on the Senate floor. Let's watch it.
So here's what happened. They left early on the 25th, specifically to avoid a vote on the Epstein files. Then they had this week off, this week off, this week off, this week off, this week off. Just stay off. Come back. One, two, three. Long weekend. One, two, three, four. Long weekend. One, two, three, four. Long weekend. Another break. Another break. Another break.
And now they're saying, another break. Get back to work.
Get back to work. But let me fact check it a little bit. While they're on vacation, they are working, be clear, for Argentina. You see, Argentina just got $20 billion so that their MAGA puppet, Javier Millay, can throw these concerts for himself with pyrotechnics while they literally burn away the money that America is giving them.
And Senator Schatz was on the Senate floor and he outlined this perfectly. Watch.
So just to recap, Trump is at the exact same time incinerating $70 billion of taxpayer money, but what's the one thing that there's not enough money for? You. There's not enough money for you. There's enough money for a $50 billion tariff bailout. There's enough money for Argentina, but there's not enough money for you.
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