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We’re now getting into the third week of what Speaker Mike Johnson rightly calls “the Democrat government shutdown.” Two full weeks of Washington theater, besides this time, the show’s on your dime, and the plot is so absurd it will make a Babylon Bee headline blush. Watch the full presser right here.

🚨 BREAKING: Speaker Johnson exposes that Democrats — in order to reopen the authorities — need $24.6M for “climate resilience” in Honduras, $3.9M to “LGBTQI+ democracy grants” in the Balkans, and $2M for “feminist democratic principles” in Africa

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— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 14, 2025

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The Democrat demand sheet for reopening the government reads less like a budget proposal and more like the syllabus for a gender studies class at Berkeley. Johnson laid it out plain: To turn the lights back on, Democrats want to spend $3.9 million on “LGBTQI+ democracy grants” in the Western Balkans. Because nothing says “essential American governance” like educating Balkan bureaucrats about pronouns.

Let that sink in.

While Border Patrol goes underfunded and small companies cling on by a thread, Democrats are holding the authorities hostage over rainbow grants in Serbia. You can’t even make this stuff up.

Johnson didn’t mince phrases. “Welcome to day 14 of the Democrat government shutdown,” he said. “Two weeks of Democrats in Congress inflicting untold pain on the American people for nothing other than pure politics.” He’s proper. This isn’t about fiscal accountability or even ideological variations. It’s about uncooked, performative energy, the form that values advantage signaling abroad more than solvency at home.

Republicans supplied a clean persevering with decision, a simple “keep the lights on” plan. Democrats rejected it a number of occasions, despite having supported the same concept in the past. Why? Because Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has to feed the activist wing of his celebration — the Marxist base Johnson rightly called out, which now dictates every thing from border coverage to price range negotiations.

And that’s just one line merchandise on their laundry checklist of lunacy.

Democrats also need $24.6 million for “climate resilience in Honduras,” $13.4 million for “civic engagement in Zimbabwe,” and another $2 million to “organize for feminist democratic principles in Africa.” There’s even $2.9 million earmarked for “desert locust risk reduction” in the Horn of Africa. Apparently, locusts rank greater than laid-off federal staff or struggling American households.

It’s laborious to determine what’s more insulting, the waste of money or the smugness behind it. Washington elites genuinely imagine they will buy the world’s advantage with your tax {dollars}, even as grocery costs and mortgage charges choke the very center class they declare to defend.

Johnson called it “absurd,” and that’s being well mannered. Because this isn’t just about numbers. It’s about values, the ones Democrats keep exporting at taxpayer expense. They’ve turned the federal price range into a social justice brochure.

And then, to top it off, their proposal tries to undo every ounce of common sense Republicans managed to restore last session. Democrats need to re-add unlawful immigrants to taxpayer-funded health care, reversing provisions in the Working Families Tax Cut Act that stored advantages for residents only. That transfer alone may price practically $200 billion. They also need to kill modest work necessities for able-bodied males without dependents, because apparently, “accountability” is the new hate speech.

And just when you thought it couldn’t get dumber, they need to make the COVID-era Obamacare subsidies everlasting, no income caps, no reform, no oversight. Just another open tab on the taxpayer credit card. Speaker Johnson’s response was simple and refreshingly grownup: “We are not doing that.”

Good. Someone finally said it.

It’s about time Washington remembered that “governing” doesn’t imply scattering {dollars} across the globe in the title of progressive therapy. The Democrat shutdown isn’t a stand for the people; it’s a tantrum for the NGOs. They’d slightly keep the authorities shuttered than give up their global social experiments.

So when you hear Democrats cry about “Republican obstruction,” keep in mind this: Republicans supplied a manner ahead. Democrats supplied pronoun grants in Bosnia. The alternative couldn’t be clearer.

If they need to fund democracy, possibly start with our own, the one that’s being held hostage by activists in $2,000 fits who still suppose “equity” means throwing your paycheck into a Balkan rainbow fund.

This isn’t governing. It’s globalist efficiency artwork. And they need America to foot the invoice.

Editor’s Note: The Schumer Shutdown is right here. Rather than put the American people first, Chuck Schumer and the radical Democrats pressured a authorities shutdown for healthcare for illegals. They own this.

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