Government shutdown standoff sees GOP divided on messaging strategy

It appears that senior Republican officials are at odds with each other on how to depict the repercussions of the ongoing government closure.

Democrats in the Senate still refuse to budge from their demands for OBAMACAR’s support extensions to be included in a short -term federal financing bill, so the government is likely to remain closed at least until next week.

President Donald Trump and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has given Wide discretionary authority How will agencies and project operations, as well as federal workforce, look like.

Mike Johnson spokesperson, R, sought. To depict these decisions as difficult tasks for Trump’s director and director of security control, Ross, especially pushing the administration to permanently benefit from federal workers, as long as the closure continues.

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The spokesman Mike Johnson, the left, and President Donald Trump, took various approaches to filming federal discounts amid the ongoing government closure. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images; Francis Chung/Politico/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Johnson told Fox News Digital in an interview earlier this week that Trump was “very annoyed” with the position of Democrats the government and is concerned about its permanent impact on Americans.

Larry Kudlo, Fox host, told Thursday that Vogue in a “non -allergic” position, and while there “it can be somewhat that comes out of it, if we limit the size and scope of the government” that “it is not a job that he enjoys.”

While Trump was blame for the Democrats Closure For the Americans, it struck a different tone when discussing its political repercussions in recent days.

Trump has actually published social on Thursday that he will meet “to determine which of the numerous democratic agencies, most of which is a political fraud, which is to be cut off.”

“I can’t believe that the left extremist Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity,” Trump continued. “They are not stupid people, so this may be the way to desire, calmly and quickly, making America great again!”

Johnson also provided a defense of Vought’s defense during the invitation of Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives only with the OMB director on Wednesday, and Fox News Digital was also informed.

The spokesman for the imminent federal workers gave it as a difficult position to be in it, and one of the Democrats has developed by rejecting the Republican Party financing plan.

Johnson said: “Ross is not a dark Riber,” Johnson said.

Russell Fion, Director of the Administration and Budget Office, met President Donald Trump on October 2, 2025, to discuss discounts to the closed government. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

However, on Thursday evening, Trump shared a video created by AI on Truth Social, which is characterized as a Reaper -like character against a satirical simulation version of the Blue Oyster song “Don’t Eemmer”.

The video showed that it is going through an office full of workers and through a hall of pictures that include senior Democrats, including the leader of the Senate Chic Chuck Schumer, Den.

“Ross Vir is Riber. He holds the pen, money and the brain,” sings the audio comment. “Democrats, children, here comes Riber.”

Johnson launched various signals during a press conference on Friday, and reported that Trump does not take a “great pleasure” in closing disorders but “they wander around the Democrats”, because “this is what President Trump does.”

He asked these two points, Johnson said that mockery was targeting the Democrats exclusively.

Johnson said: “The effects are very dangerous to real people, real Americans. We support federal employees who do a great job in all these different areas. But what they possess, in an attempt to enjoy, in an attempt to shed light, is to indicate the absurdity of the Democrats’ position,” Johnson said.

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“They use themes and all social media tools to do this. Some people find that entertainment. But at the end of the day, the decisions are difficult. I tell you, they are not happy with that.”

While Trump’s messages can seem to reduce the leaders of the Republican Party in the House of Representatives, it may also be a strategy to pressure Democrats on two separate planes while continuing to resist the federal financing strategy of Republicans.

Republicans pay a relatively flat extension of the fiscal year (fiscal year) 2025 federal financing levels until November 21 to give legislators more time to get a long -term deal for the fiscal year 2026.

They have indicated that this is a measure similar to what Democrats agreed to 13 times during the era of former President Joe Biden.

The leader of the minority in the House of Representatives, Hakim Jeffrez, speaks to the left to the media next to the leader of the Senate minority Chuck Schumer the day when President Donald Trump met with senior leaders of Congress from both sides in Washington, DC, on September 29, 2025. (Kevin Lamark/Reuters)

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But the Democrats, who have been marginalized in federal financing discussions, block support unless Republicans include the extended language Obamacare subsidies Which was temporarily reinforced during the Covid-19s.

Republican leaders have indicated openness to discuss the credits, whose validity ends at the end of 2025 without taking action in Congress, but they said these talks are better than federal financing.

The White House did not respond immediately when it was reached to comment on Trump’s correspondence and Johnson, but Fox News Digit received an automatic response, “Because of the lack of employees resulting from democratic closure, the usual monitoring around the clock throughout the week may suffer from delay.

“While waiting for a response, please remember that this could have been avoided if the Democrats voted in favor of the continuous, clean decision to keep the government open. The press office cannot also accommodate the requests of waves or accompanying at this time. Thank you for your interest in this issue.”