Oct. 15, 2025 6 AM PT
To the editor: The mass firings that Workplace of Administration and Price range Director Russ Vought and the Trump administration introduced throughout the shutdown are merciless, doubtlessly unlawful and one other assault upon the folks whereas they’re already struggling (“Firings of federal workers begin as White House seeks to pressure Democrats in government shutdown,” Oct. 10). That is presupposed to be our president.
GOP senators again Vought’s hardball shutdown technique because the standoff has intensified.
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said: “Proper now it’s tremendous. If [the administration] begins taking draconian kinds of actions, then I believe it creates a harder situation for us. It places us additional away from what he needs to get completed, too.”
Senate Democrats are demanding a deal extending expiring “Obamacare subsidies” and gained’t present the votes wanted to reopen the federal government except they get greater than a assure to sort out the problem. They’re preventing for the folks whereas our president is attacking our cities.
Home Speaker Mike Johnson’s resolution to maintain his caucus house is one other instance that reveals the GOP’s lack of ability to control regardless that it controls all three branches.
Warning: The stakes are nothing lower than the way forward for American democracy. If we fail to rise to this problem, MAGA Republicans gained’t simply win the following election; they’ll win the ability to outline who counts as an American, whose tales matter and who has a proper to belong in America.
Richard A. French, Glendale
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To the editor: Johnson has predicted an extended shutdown whereas refusing to return to work (“Government shutdown could be the longest ever, Speaker Johnson warns,” Oct. 13). How shameful is that this maneuver? Whereas some month-to-month staff will get their final paycheck, different federal employees should not being paid or getting their pink slips and army personnel are going with out paychecks, our Congress, significantly the Home, will not be in session however getting paid.
The shutdown took place over the potential for massive will increase to healthcare prices for a lot of People. At this level, who can blame the Democrats for attempting to guard People in each crimson and blue states from oppressively excessive healthcare prices? Who can belief the Republicans to honor a deal when their president refuses to spend monies which have already been appropriated?
It’s time to finish paychecks for Congress throughout a shutdown. It could be time to finish the advantages as properly, which might get monetary savings on the deficit.
Robert Bachmann, Los Angeles
