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The House finally acted this week on a continuing resolution aimed at ending the record-long government shutdown that has battered American families and disrupted livelihoods across the country. Speaker Mike Johnson stood before reporters and made it blunt: voters will remember that Democrats played political games with people’s paychecks and benefits rather than put the country first.
Johnson’s message was unmistakable and unapologetic — Washington’s entitlement class cannot be allowed to weaponize government funding while everyday Americans suffer. He called out the Democrats for blocking clean funding measures and insisted Republicans have repeatedly voted to keep the government open even as the left dug in for political advantage.
This shutdown was not a short skirmish; it became the longest in our nation’s history and began on Oct. 1, leaving essential programs strained and states warning they could not keep feeding families without the federal government reopening. The pain was real: flights canceled, federal workers furloughed or unpaid, and vital food assistance programs put at risk while career politicians played brinksmanship.
The Senate finally took the sensible step of advancing a bipartisan package, with a 60-40 vote that included a handful of Democrats willing to put country over caucus, and sent the bill back to the House for the final step. Now the question is whether House Republicans will finish what the American people need: reopen the government, restore services, and hold the radical spending priorities that caused this mess to account.
Patriotic conservatives should applaud Johnson for keeping pressure on the left and refusing to let the political class normalize runaway spending and dependency. Long-term solutions — real entitlement reform, prioritizing veterans and border security, and stopping bailouts for out-of-control programs — are the responsibility of honest leaders, not the career clowns who would rather score headlines than solve problems.
This is a moment of political clarity for hardworking Americans: remember who fought to reopen the government and who used shutdowns as a bargaining chip to protect Washington’s status quo. If Republicans hold firm now and deliver results, the voters will remember at the ballot box; conservatives must stay united, keep the pressure on, and turn this crisis into the reset our country needs.
