{"id":1056650,"date":"2025-10-22T15:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T19:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1056650"},"modified":"2025-10-22T15:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T19:19:10","slug":"day-22-of-trumps-government-shutdown-trumps-priorities-are-anywhere-but-ending-his-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/day-22-of-trumps-government-shutdown-trumps-priorities-are-anywhere-but-ending-his-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 22 of Trump\u2019s Government Shutdown: Trump\u2019s Priorities Are Anywhere but Ending His Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"449\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png 1101w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=300,132 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=768,337 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=1024,449 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Over three weeks into Donald Trump\u2019s government shutdown, Trump\u2019s priorities seem to be everywhere except with working families and the 22 million people who are about to see their health care premiums skyrocket. Since Trump\u2019s shutdown began, he has:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Eleanor_Mueller\/status\/1978492440865570827\">Worked to send a<\/a> $40 billion bailout to Argentina.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/10\/17\/nx-s1-5578304\/trump-george-santos-prison-sentence-commuted\">Commuted<\/a> the sentence of convicted felon George Santos.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/10\/21\/us\/politics\/trump-justice-department-compensation.html\">Demanded<\/a> $230 million in taxpayer funds as payment for his criminal investigations.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/10\/15\/politics\/trump-white-house-ballroom-donor-dinner\">Hosted<\/a> his billionaire friends at the White House in recognition of their support for his gold ballroom.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Even Trump\u2019s own allies in Congress have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/10\/21\/politics\/republicans-trump-government-shutdown-deal\">pointed out<\/a> that their \u201cdealmaker-in-chief\u201d has done nothing to reopen the government.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>In response, DNC Rapid Response Director Kendall Witmer released the following statement:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAmericans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/10\/21\/politics\/democrats-republicans-blame-government-shutdown\">blame<\/a> Trump and Republicans for the shutdown by double digits \u2014 and for good reason. He has abandoned working families and the 22 million people who are about to wake up on November 1st to massive health care cost hikes. Trump would rather focus on increasing his personal fortune, building his luxurious ballroom, and commuting criminals\u2019 prison sentences than reopening the government and protecting health care. Trump\u2019s presidency has never been about helping working families \u2014 it has only ever been about enriching the ultrawealthy and helping his most loyal allies, while everyone else gets left in the dust.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump refuses to join Democrats on a common-sense proposal that reopens the government and protects millions of Americans\u2019 health insurance costs from increasing by an average of 114% as the open enrollment period for the ACA marketplace quickly approaches. The message is clear: Trump and Republicans are hell bent on protecting their billionaire tax cuts instead of making health care affordable for Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over three weeks into Donald Trump\u2019s government shutdown, Trump\u2019s priorities seem to be everywhere except with working families and the 22 million people who are about to see their health care premiums skyrocket. Since Trump\u2019s shutdown began, he has:&nbsp; Even Trump\u2019s own allies in Congress have pointed out that their \u201cdealmaker-in-chief\u201d has done nothing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Day 22 of Trump\u2019s Government Shutdown: Trump\u2019s Priorities Are Anywhere but Ending His Shutdown - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/day-22-of-trumps-government-shutdown-trumps-priorities-are-anywhere-but-ending-his-shutdown\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-10-22T19:19:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-10-22T19:19:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1101\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"483\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jared Carmeli\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jared Carmeli\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/day-22-of-trumps-government-shutdown-trumps-priorities-are-anywhere-but-ending-his-shutdown\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/day-22-of-trumps-government-shutdown-trumps-priorities-are-anywhere-but-ending-his-shutdown\/\",\"name\":\"Day 22 of Trump\u2019s Government Shutdown: Trump\u2019s Priorities Are Anywhere but Ending His Shutdown - 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