According to a Fox News report, Speaker Mike Johnson has chosen stillness as a strategy — keeping the House out of session for a sixth straight week while the government remains shut and Washington holds its breath.
The shutdown is now the second-longest in American history, and if the days keep piling up, it will take the record soon enough. The last time it went this far — 2018 into 2019 — the nation sighed and waited, and somehow, we are here again.
Senate Democrats have blocked the GOP’s short-term funding plan 13 times. There are faint murmurs of compromise, but in truth, the two sides are frozen in place — one betting on fatigue, the other on frustration.
Meanwhile, time and funding are slipping away. SNAP benefits could begin drying up Saturday, cutting off help for 42 million Americans. WIC, the program for mothers and children, is at the edge too — even after the Trump administration shuffled funds to buy a few more weeks. Head Start, the quiet engine of early childhood care, may soon stop altogether.
Republicans’ continuing resolution stretches existing funding for seven weeks and adds $88 million for security — for lawmakers, the White House, and the courts. It’s a small patch on a widening crack, and even that, for now, is rejected.
GOP leaders say they’re open to talks on healthcare credits but won’t meet the Democrats’ terms. President Trump, never one for understatement, called Democrats “crazed lunatics” for voting against the clean measure.
Watch the clip below:
NEW: President Trump calls out Democrats as the government shutdown hits day 31 with no end in sight: “All they have to do is say, ‘Let’s go, let’s open up our country,’ and everything snaps back into shape.”
“They’ve become crazed lunatics.” pic.twitter.com/s0A0lZ86fa
— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 31, 2025
