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October 29, 2025

Eric Engle: The Party of Shutdowns (Opinion)

Charleston Gazette-Mail – We’re rapidly heading toward the longest government shutdown in history. It’s no surprise that the Republican Party has congressional majorities and the White House, again, for the second lengthy federal shutdown in the past six years.

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The last shutdown ran 35 days. Though Democrats won majorities in the U.S. House in the November 2018 midterm elections, Republicans controlled both chambers during the 115th Congress before the Democrats were seated on Jan. 3, 2019, and expanded their control of the U.S. Senate in those midterms.

The GOP caused that shutdown over nonsensical border wall funding.

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