{"id":34762,"date":"2025-10-01T10:42:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34762"},"modified":"2025-10-01T10:42:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:42:29","slug":"the-only-thing-about-the-government-shutdown-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34762","title":{"rendered":"The Only Thing about the Government Shutdown You Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans have the White House and majorities in the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court.  And they can&#8217;t keep the government open.  John Thune could overrule the parliamentarian and move the CR in the Senate if he wanted to.  Russ Vought is talking about how the shutdown lets him fire federal workers.  This is all on the Republicans.  Republicans can&#8217;t govern.  Republicans don&#8217;t want to govern.  Republicans just want to burn the world down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans have the White House and majorities in the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court. And they can&#8217;t keep the government open. John Thune could overrule the parliamentarian and move the CR in the Senate if he wanted to. Russ Vought is talking about how the shutdown lets him fire federal workers. This is<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34762\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The Only Thing about the Government Shutdown You Need to Know&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[4258,4197,5313,5315,120,5314,595],"class_list":["post-34762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-government-shutdown","tag-john-thune","tag-project-2025","tag-republican-party","tag-russell-vought","tag-supreme-court","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}