by Frank Holmes, reporter
As America enters day two of the government shutdown, the Democrats are seeing massive pushback from places they never imagined possible—even such Democratic strongholds as public housing.
People in the projects don’t like the Schumer Shutdown—and now, they know who is to blame.
“The Radical Left are going to shut down the government and inflict massive pain on the American people unless they get their $1.5 trillion wish list of demands. The Trump administration wants to keep the government open for the American people,” says a pop-up message on the official website of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
“HUD is working to keep critical services online and support our most vulnerable,” added HUD Secretary Scott Turner in a similar message posted on the social media platform X. “HUD.gov has been updated accordingly.”
In the same way, the Small Business Administration told loan-starved mom-and-pop shops, “Every day that Senate Dems continue opposing a clean funding bill, they are stopping an estimated 320 small business from accepting $170 million in SBA-guaranteed funding.”
The U.S. State Department alerted visitors, “Due to the Democrat-led shutdown, website updates will be limited until full operations resume.”
Since “Democrats have shut down the government,” said the U.S. Department of Justice, the DOJ’s “websites are not current updated. Please refer to the Department of Justice’s contingency plan for more information.”
Similar-sounding messages appeared on the websites and/or the official social media accounts of the White House, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Forest Service and U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt, and others.
Soon, Democrats—especially those who rely on the Section 8 vote—were hopping mad.
It's like a Choose Your Own Hatch Act Violation. pic.twitter.com/cZstHCVKwM
— Jordan Fischer (@JordanOnRecord) October 1, 2025
“The fact that this partisan propaganda is plastered on the main page of HUD is outrageous,” wrote an incensed Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas.
So-called Republican “gaslighting” behind such a message “is wild,” said Crockett, who shifts from accent to accent in her interviews. “THEY control the White House, the House, and the Senate—yet always find a way to blame Democrats for their mess.”
Crockett, whose seat is likely being redistricted out of existence by the Republican-controlled Texas state legislature in Austin, did not mention the reason the GOP is right to point its finger at the Democrats.
Under ordinary circumstances, a bill can pass either chamber of Congress with a simple majority. Since Republicans control the House of Representatives and the Senate, as long as they stick together, they can pass legislation.
But the Senate allows the parties to invoke the filibuster, a parliamentary delay tactic that allows “debate” to go on until one side gets a supermajority. To invoke cloture and proceed to a final vote in the Senate, a bill has to pass with 60 votes—and the Republicans control only 53, even when they all vote unanimously.
“The so-called ‘$1.5 trillion wish list’ is about protecting health care, food assistance, and housing,” Crockett added—a claim Democrats promoted across the media…and that Republicans shot down cold.
“The Left’s $1.5 TRILLION wish list is nothing but waste, handouts & reckless spending,” responded Rep. Mark Alford, R-Mo.
Democrats really demand taxpayers sign off on free healthcare for illegal aliens, keep funding ultra biased NPR and PBS, and paying for Woke pet projects, noted the Republican Study Committee, the voice of House conservatives, led by Republican Congressman August Pfluger of Texas.
North Dakota Congresswoman Julie Fedorchak, a Republican, posted a mock-up bill of sale showing the Democratic Party charging taxpayers $1.5 trillion for such big-ticket liberal spending programs as “DEI projects in foreign countries,””taxpayer-funded criminal defense,” and “electric vehicle access to HOV lanes.”
Democrats originally denied this, claiming they shut down the government to save poor U.S. citizens on Medicaid—but then an ultra-liberal Democrat let the cat out of the bag.
California Democrat Ro Khanna admitted on national TV that up to 10 percent of the spending Democrats are bucking for would go for “people who are undocumented,” while “90 to 95 percent of the funding we’re talking about is…funding for American citizens.”
Since one of the most “progressive” members of Congress let the cat out of the bag, the Left has had to respond with another tactic: They’re trying to prosecute the Trump administration, saying the truth-telling government websites violate the law.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) finally admits that money Democrats are asking for they intend to give to illegals.
The mask is off.pic.twitter.com/9PSpdfqdsH
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) October 1, 2025
The “progressive” group Public Citizen filed a legal complaint accusing HUD of violating the Hatch Act, a law prohibiting the government from using official government resources to affect an election.
“Posting on a website directly trying to affect the [midterm] election in 2026 is an obvious violation,” Craig Holman, Public Citizen’s government affairs lobbyist, told Axios.
Seriously, more lawfare? Critics say that allegations amount to nothing more than ridiculous blame-shifting and deflection.
An official spokesperson for HUD said its website used specific wording to pin the blame on an ideology, not a political party—and there’s nothing illegal about pointing out radical liberal spending priorities.
“Why is the media more focused on a banner than reporting on the impact of a shutdown on the American people?” asked the spokesperson.
Readers know the answer in their bones: Because the legacy media have always been more interested in electing Democrats than in serving the American people. They never let the facts get in the way of their bias.
That’s why the American people have to engage in their own shut down: Go to your internet browser of any legacy media website you have open, and click the red “X” in the upper left-hand corner, shutting down that tab.
Instead of reading more of their lies, you can always get the straight skinny by reading reliable websites like The Horn News—and inviting your friends to read along with you.