government shutdown

Federal Workers Should Launch a Wildcat Strike to End Government Shutdown

Sunday, November 9, 2025 at 9:18 AM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

While federal workers go unpaid, Republicans play politics with their livelihoods. iPINIONS argues it’s time for a wildcat strike to end the government shutdown once and for all — a strike that would remind Washington that workers, not politicians, keep this country running. Read my full take on Substack:https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/federal-workers-should-launch-a-wildcat Read more.

Ballrooms and Breadlines: Trump Parties While America Starves

Sunday, November 2, 2025 at 9:24 AM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

As millions stood in food lines, including military families, Trump threw a Great Gatsby-themed bash at Mar-a-Lago, laughing the night away like Louis XVI at Versailles. iPINIONS calls out the obscene contrast between Republican decadence and the desperation they cause. Read my full take on Substack:https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/ballrooms-and-breadlines-trump-parties Read more.

Happy Halloween: But Why Trick Federal Workers to Treat MAGA Oligarchs

Friday, October 31, 2025 at 9:15 AM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

Speaker Mike Johnson says God made him Speaker, but iPINIONS contends that his faith seems better suited for feeding Trump’s ego than feeding America’s hungry. With federal workers losing paychecks, SNAP benefits on the brink, and Trump hoarding billions for his cronies, this Halloween’s real monsters aren’t in masks; they’re in Congress. Read my full… Read more.

Governing by Extortion: The GOP’s New Normal

Friday, January 5, 2024 at 8:27 PM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

For 150 years, the Grand Old Party (GOP, aka Republican Party) was the proud standard bearer of Lincoln’s legacy. Yet, in just four years, Donald Trump transformed the Republican party into a cult led by a mafia don. This transformation must have Lincoln rolling over in his grave. The party now thrives solely on loyalty to Trump –… Read more.

MAGA Republicans Forcing Government Shutdown

Friday, September 29, 2023 at 10:25 PM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

As the country hurls closer to a government shutdown, a handful of hard-right Republican lawmakers who have been impeding nearly all progress toward funding the government, appear undeterred, even as a shutdown risks disrupting the lives of millions of Americans. … The most vocal of this handful is Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who has threatened… Read more.

Shutdown: Republicans Calling on Democrats to Embrace Compromise…

Thursday, January 17, 2019 at 7:38 AM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

Is like Klansmen calling on blacks to embrace diversity. No doubt you’ve heard President Trump leading Republicans in calling on Democrats to compromise to end this government shutdown. They would have you believe they’re compromising by insisting on $5.7 billion in funding for a wall as part of broader border security. For Democrats, though, this… Read more.

Trump’s First Year Ends with Government Shutdown…

Saturday, January 20, 2018 at 8:26 AM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

Which perfectly symbolizes the dangers, diatribes, disaffection, discrimination, disillusionment, dissembling, dithering, and dysfunction that have characterized his first year as president of the United States. In the final moments leading up to Friday’s midnight deadline, Senate Republicans and Democrats were unable to agree on a stopgap funding measure to continue government services. … Whoever works… Read more.

U.S. as Paragon and Beacon of Democracy? Ha!

Saturday, October 5, 2013 at 7:45 AM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

I fully appreciate why so many Americans winced at Russian President Vladimir Putin presuming to lecture the United States about the shortcomings of its democratic practices (in what had to have been a deliberately dated op-ed in the New York Times on 9/11). After all, with the notorious blunders of Iraq and Afghanistan still so raw in public consciousness,… Read more.