Showing posts with label Shutdowns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shutdowns. Show all posts
Saturday, March 28, 2026

DHS will remain shutdown, GOP-controlled U.S. House passes 60-day continuing resolution to fund DHS, ignoring the plan passed by the GOP-controlled Senate earlier

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 The Senate returns in 2 weeks to take up the matter. Kristi Noem did a really fantastic job running DHS, didn't she?    
Friday, March 27, 2026

GOP-controlled US House says Nay Nay to GOP-controlled Senate bill funding DHS, meaning more DHS shutdown, et cetera et cetera et cetera!

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    TSA funding update: House GOP spikes DHS funding proposal, extending shutdown that’s caused delays ... The stopgap measures advanced out...

Senate Democrats get partial win, bill funding DHS passes without further funding for ICE and parts of Customs and Border Protection, which were massively funded last year by the Big Ugly Bill

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Senate advances DHS funding bill, tees up House vote to end shutdown as TSA airport lines stretch   ... After weeks of Republicans fightin...
Sunday, February 22, 2026

ICE Barbie makes travelers suffer for DHS shutdown

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  'HOMELAND' suspends TSA PreCheck, Global Entry airport security programs...   Update : DHS reverses course on TSA PreCheck suspens...
Wednesday, February 4, 2026

We had a lousy 4-day federal government shutdown and the Feds now need until Feb 11 to report jobs, but private payrolls came out today with a pathetic +22k

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Just skipping along the surface of a lake like a stone headed under.  
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

100% ground beef averaged a record $6.089 in year one of Trump 2.0, and hit a record high $6.687 in Dec 2025 to celebrate the New Golden Age for them, not for you

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 Like many other such graphs, the graph for 100% Ground Beef won't show the 2025 average because the government shutdown meant no figure...

Mark Zandi: Missing data from October and November combined with tariffs means inflation is still probably higher than it appears, closer to 3% year over year rather than 2.6%

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From the story here :  ... “The bottom line is, I think inflation is still uncomfortably high,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s...
Thursday, December 25, 2025

Unbelievably rosy GDP report contained core pce inflation data at 2.9% countering previous rosy core cpi inflation report at 2.6% and indicating rising inflation

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 U.S. economy grows by 4.3% in third quarter, much more than expected, delayed report shows   The U.S. economy grew at a much greater-than-e...
Thursday, December 18, 2025

The BLS report of CPI is missing too much data for both October and November to be a reliable estimate of inflation

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 The 38-page pdf is full of tables with missing data like this " - ". ... CPI data collection resumed on November 14, 2025. ...  

Trump says inflation has stopped in last night's speech, but what stopped was their collection of the inflation data

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 Do you remember when COVID hit and Trump said we should just stop testing to make it go away? Trump on coronavirus: ‘If we stop testing ...
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Speaking of not doing enough, the lazy bums in the Trump administration aren't producing October data because of their ridiculous government shutdown, giving us chart crimes like the one below . . .

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 . . . in which full time employment falls 1.606 million from 135.708 million in September 2025 to 134.102 million in November 2025. What a ...
Thursday, December 4, 2025

Trump's base is not happy: Strong disapproval of Trump hits new high 46% in Rasmussen Reports Poll, strong approval hits new low 27% for a second day

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Trump's total disapproval score remains at a record high 55% for a second day. His strong approval score is now a record low 27%, lower ...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

COVID-19 in wastewater analysis is currently at a very low 1.48 nationally on Nov 15 but was just above 7 in early September, which is high

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CDC is updating the chart again after the long government shutdown.  
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Trump hits new second term low -17 in Rasmussen Reports Trump Approval Index

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It's been a story of a bad week just getting worse every day in this Trump-friendly poll. People are in a foul mood in the aftermath of ...
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

House passes continuing spending resolution 222-209 and sends it to Trump who will sign the bill and end the longest federal government shutdown tonight

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  House passes funding bill to end record-long government shutdown, Trump set to sign
Monday, November 10, 2025

Gang of eight Democrats in the U.S. Senate join Republicans to end the longest federal government shutdown in history

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Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) Sen. Angus King (I-ME) Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) Se...
Thursday, November 6, 2025

How would a Democrat plant in the GOP act any differently from Donald John Trump?

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Monday, November 3, 2025

At Rasmussen Reports Trump disapproval has been running at a record high 53% for five consecutive days

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 See for yourself, here . I reckon the government shutdown and the 60 Minutes interview in which Trump doubled down on many bogus claims ar...
Tuesday, October 21, 2025

These two pixies John J. Waters and Adam Ellwanger can't point to one thing which Democrats have achieved which Donald Trump has permanently reversed or topped

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 ... By the time Obama secured his second term as president, the Democratic party (and the shadow groups that swim in its wake) had won the...
Tuesday, October 14, 2025

September 2025 CPI data are scheduled to be released on October 24, 2025, at 8:30 A.M. Eastern Time instead of October 15 due to the government shutdown

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