The Government Shutdown of 2025

Both parties can't seem to come together to get a budget dispute settled. The government shuts down. Each party blames the other. Article over.

Kidding..

While it's a serious problem for the government to shut down, we can potentially fix this problem by legislating against it in the future — such as making it so the government can't shut down at all. The fact that it can is crazy alone. It's not like I have a perfect one-size-fits-all fix for this problem, but we need to stop this from happening in the future. It's been a problem many times and needs to be addressed.

Yes, people will say that's just not how it works... But what about the mindset, "If you don't like the law, change it?" I, personally, don't like that this can even happen in the first place. Thus, I think we should change the "law" or prevent whatever measure causes this to happen in the first place.

Programs should continue to be funded even during disputes, at the rate they were before the disputes were had, instead of just shutting down the government until an agreement can be met. It's not like they will literally run out of money. Taxes are still paid.

Let's grow up, stop blaming each other, and make real change for real problems in this world.

The power we have as Americans should be taken advantage of for good — not partisan disagreements to the point we shut down services that are needed because we disagree.

-Scott Petheram

Edited for grammar only by ChatGPT (no formatting or structural changes made).