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Left-Wing Punished in Surprise Greenland Election Result, Next Govt May Be More Trump-Friendly by Oliver JJ Lane Dramatic and unexpected election results in Greenland saw long-governing legacy parties kicked out of power and more right-wing, pro-American politicians set to dominate parliament for the first time. The provisional results for the Greenlandic elections held on Tuesday show a historic result not forecast by pollsters, with the longstanding political establishment parties punished and relegated to third and fourth positions, respectively. The election comes amid intense discussion of Greenland’s potential independence domestically and global attention over U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated overtures to the country to become part of the United States. As things stand, Greenland is now a region of its former colonial master Denmark https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/03/12/left-wing-punished-in-surprise-greenland-election-result-next-govt-may-be-more-trump-friendly/ .

Inflation cools in first full month of Trump term ABC News, by Max Zahn Consumer prices rose 2.8% in February compared to a year ago, easing slightly over the first full month under President Donald Trump and offering welcome news for markets roiled by a global trade war. Inflation cooled more than economists expected. Price increases slowed from a 3% inflation rate recorded in January, though inflation remain nearly a percentage point higher than the Federal Reserve's target of 2%. Egg prices, a closely watched symbol of price increases, soared 58.8% in February compared to a year ago, accelerating from the previous month. Bird flu has decimated the egg supply, lifting prices higher. https://abcnews.go.com/Business/inflation-report-set-arrive-amid-stock-slide-recession/story?id=119664371 .

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Government shutdown likely after Schumer says Senate Dems will block GOP funding bill By Ryan King and Josh Christenson Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Wednesday that most Democrats in the upper chamber will not support a House Republican-passed bill to fund the federal government through the end of September, all but ensuring a partial shutdown beginning at 11:59 p.m. Friday. “Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort, but Republicans chose a partisan path, drafting their [continuing resolution] without any input — any input — from congressional Democrats,” Schumer (D-NY) said on the Senate floor Wednesday. With Republicans holding a 53-47 advantage in the Senate, and legislation needing 60 votes to overcome a filibuster, at least seven Democrats would need to support the spending bill, which passed the House 217-213 Tuesday night. Following Tuesday night’s vote, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced the lower chamber of Congress would recess until March 24, leaving Schumer with the option of accepting the House bill and keeping the federal lights on over the objection of progressive activists, or rejecting it and putting the nation’s capital on course for the 11th partial government shutdown since 1980. In a statement after the lower chamber passed the funding bill, Johnson said it was “decision time for Senate Democrats: cast a vote to keep the government open or be responsible for shutting it down.” Before Schumer’s announcement, the only Senate Democrat to openly back the House GOP continuing resolution was Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), while Sens. Jon Ossof (D-Ga.), Angus King (I-Maine), Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) had signaled openness to supporting the bill. Liberal activists had pointed out that the current spending fight was the last big chance for Democrats to extract concessions from Republicans until this fall, when the fiscal year 2026 appropriations process begins. (Lets not do what is best for the country, but what is best to "get concessions" real honorable.) https://nypost.com/2025/03/12/us-news/government-shutdown-likely-friday-night-after-schumer-says-senate-dems-will-block-gop-funding-bill/ .

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Democrats Poised to Shut Down Government By John Hindraker The House has passed a continuing resolution to keep the federal government operating until September. The CR will be helpful to the Trump administration because it increases defense spending, while reducing other domestic spending: The current crisis in Washington is driven largely by the fact that the Trump administration, led by DOGE, doesn’t want to spend many billions of dollars that Congress has appropriated to various departments and agencies, and bureaucrats have allocated among specific programs, often in ways that are absurdly wasteful or even antithetical to our national interests. The Democrats can’t stand the idea of any government spending being cut, no matter how absurdly wasteful it may be (e.g., the famous transgender opera in Colombia). So they are prepared to shut down the federal government rather than allow a single dollar to be cut: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/03/democrats-poised-to-shut-down-government.php .

The government shutdown will start at midnight Friday unless something changes. As for Sen. Schumer's hope that Republican colleagues will join him, he already knows that won't happen because the House has adjourned and members have gone home. Senate Dems held a meeting today just before the announcement during which they yelled at each other about the next move. They have lots of wants but no real plan for getting anything. Throwing sand in the gears at this moment while also pretending they aren't responsible and don't want a shutdown really doesn't add up. As Sen. Thune put it, there's only one option available with little more than 48 hours to go. Even the NY Times seems a bit confused about how this course of action is supposed to work in Democrats' favor. Even putting aside the issue of blame for a moment, if the goal is to stop DOGE, shutting down the government seems like a counterintuitive way to go about it. What's to stop DOGE from capitalizing on the shutdown to create a permanent reduction in force? Some Democrats seem aware this is a possibility but they are ready to roll the dice anyway. It almost goes without saying that Democrats would never attempt this if their friends in the media didn't always have their backs. If a shutdown happens, their only hope is to blame Republicans and you can bet the media will bend over backwards to help convince people Dems are not to blame. Watch and see. https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2025/03/12/it-looks-like-democrats-want-a-shutdown-n3800701 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/us/politics/government-shutdown-funding-bill-senate-democrats.html?smid=url-share .

If This Is the Reaction to the Senate Dems' First Move on the Spending Bill, They Better Rethink It Matt Vespa We’re heading for a shutdown. On March 14, the government will close its doors, and it’s the fault of Senate Democrats who failed to advance the House’s six-month continuing resolution. They want to short-term CR this session to death and disrupt the GOP from their plans of passing a slew of crucial domestic items, like making the Trump tax cuts permanent, finishing the border wall, and securing our southern border. They also want to shut down the Department of Government Efficiency, whose work of uncovering wasteful spending and political class pork has hit close to home. Usually, I hate CRs, but the big prize of passing that budget reconciliation package is too good. It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty damn close. Schumer, however, boasted about the GOP not having the votes for cloture this afternoon, as every Democrat refused to break ranks: If the initial reaction to the Senate Democrats’ move, which is to push the government toward closure, is everyone calling Chuck ‘shutdown Schumer,’ maybe they should rethink this strategy. Democrats also overplayed their hand during the first Trump presidency when they shut down the government over illegal aliens. https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/03/12/if-this-is-the-reaction-to-the-senate-dems-first-move-on-the-spending-bill-they-better-rethink-it-n2653723

It Seems the Schumer Shutdown Is Coming Ward Clark Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is, to put it as politely as possible, a real piece of... work. He's never seen a tax he wasn't in favor of; he defines "bipartisanship" as "Republicans do what I tell them to, and nothing more," and now he's about to shut the government down, or at least give it his best old college try. Because shutting the government down is only bad when Republicans do it. https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/03/12/the-schumer-shutdown-is-coming-n2186598

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You didn't read what they are really doing. You assumed what it was. You posted anyway. You exposed yourself for the biased child that you are. .

Democrats poster boy gets lots of support.

Read the whole thread.

They cooked the books for four years.

Forget 'tradition' The GOP is going to pick up Senate seats in 26

I just noticed, one of the four brave women going up in the Spacex liftoff tonight is a "Russian". More evidence of that Putin lover Trump selling us out. Lol. 😄