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It’s been over three weeks since the Republicans shut down the government rather than address a health care crisis of their own making. 

We remain in the midst of a federal government shutdown with no clear end in sight. 

Speaker Mike Johnson canceled yet another week of votes. 

After weeks of inaction from Congressional Republicans, funding for the federal government ran out at midnight on October 1st.

We have less than 72 hours before government funding runs out and we face a shutdown at midnight on October 1st. Thousands of federal workers who took DOGE’s offer of deferred resignation will come off payroll on September 30th. 

In 1786, Thomas Jefferson wrote in a letter to James Currie, “our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.” This sentiment was embodied in the Virginia Declaration of Rights, penned by George Mason.

Political violence reared its ugly head in America last week with the murder of Charlie Kirk at a Utah college debate event less than three months after the murder of Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband. Just moments after Kirk was shot, we also witnessed another school shooting in Colorado.

Congress is officially back in session — with 20 days to avoid a government shutdown by passing a funding bill. House and Senate Democrats stand ready to pass a bipartisan funding bill that improves the health, safety and economic well-being of every American.

Happy September!

August recess is over, and Congress is back in session with just 28 days to pass funding bills before current funding expires at midnight on October 1st. Absent Congressional action by then, we face a government shutdown. So once again, the shutdown countdown begins…