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House Speaker Mike Johnson took to national television this week to sound the alarm that Washington is hurtling toward a manufactured crisis unless leaders start acting like adults instead of career politicians. Americans watching know what’s at stake: paychecks, troops, disaster relief, and the basic functions of government cannot be held hostage to partisan theater.
The clock is unforgiving — Congress faces a hard deadline at the end of the fiscal day and the prospect of a shutdown that would punish everyday citizens, not the political class. This is not theoretical brinkmanship; leaders in both parties are playing chicken while federal services and workers hang in the balance.
Senate Democrats blocked a Republican plan to keep the lights on, making clear they prefer political leverage over governing responsibly. The failed vote shows who is willing to risk a shutdown to score headlines rather than protect Americans who rely on the federal government for essential services.
Johnson has pushed for practical, temporary funding measures — first a longer stopgap and then a pared-back three-month continuing resolution — precisely so appropriators can finish the job without the country paying the price. That kind of pragmatic leadership is what voters sent Republicans to Washington to provide: keep the government open while cutting waste and defending the rule of law.
Make no mistake: Democrats’ insistence on attaching costly healthcare and policy riders to must-pass funding is classic Washington hostage-taking, and ordinary Americans will foot the bill for their political stunts. If leaders on the left truly cared about working families, they would take a clean, short-term funding bill and negotiate policy on its merits — not use government funding as a bargaining chip.
Now is the moment for Republicans to stand firm, for conservatives to rally behind real stewardship of taxpayer dollars, and for patriots everywhere to pressure their lawmakers to protect the people, not special interests. Washington’s swamp prefers chaos because chaos covers incompetence; it’s time to drain it and keep the country running.
