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Virginia Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger didn’t mince phrases when requested if Democrats in Congress ought to see her election — and the success of different Democrats final Tuesday — as permission to proceed the federal government shutdown.
“Completely not,” Spanberger mentioned on CBS Information’ “Face the Nation” Sunday. “Our victory was based mostly on a marketing campaign addressing issues associated to prices and chaos. My marketing campaign throughout the previous two years has been based mostly on listening to the challenges that individuals are dealing with all throughout Virginia.”
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Abigail Spanberger campaigning in Virginia on June 26, 2025. (Maxine Wallace/The Washington Submit/Getty Pictures)
“It’s the chaos popping out of Washington that has been impacting Virginians so severely,” she added.
Virginia is house to over 147,000 authorities staff, lots of whom have been unpaid because the authorities shutdown started. That’s the third-highest focus of presidency staff in any state, based on information by the Library of Congress.
Spanberger stormed to victory final week alongside fellow Democrats in New Jersey, New York Metropolis and a Democrat-led poll measure in California. Within the wake of election night time, some onlookers prompt the outcomes mirrored public unrest over the federal government shutdown — and a tacit endorsement of the Democratic place within the gridlock.
Even President Donald Trump prompt that Republicans had underperformed due to the shutdown.
“Final night time was not anticipated to be a victory,” Trump mentioned the morning after the election. “Very Democrat areas. I don’t suppose it was good for Republicans. I don’t suppose it was good for anyone. We had an fascinating night. The shutdown was an enormous issue — unfavourable for the Republicans.”
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President Donald Trump speaks throughout a breakfast with Senate and Home Republicans within the State Eating Room of the White Home, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025. (Evan Vucci/AP Picture)
Republicans and Democrats stay at odds over how you can fund the federal government as a shutdown that started on Oct. 1 enters its fortieth day. Republicans have superior a short-term spending invoice that might hold the lights on by way of Nov. 21, however Democrats have blocked these efforts 14 occasions.
Democrats, led by Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., have demanded Congress first handle expiring COVID-era Obamacare subsidies earlier than contemplating spending laws.
Spanberger disagreed with that strategy, stating that lawmakers ought to focus their consideration on opening the federal government above healthcare issues.
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Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer and Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries discuss with reporters following their assembly with President Donald Trump and Republican leaders on the federal government funding disaster, on the Capitol in Washington, Sept. 29, 2025. (AP Picture/J. Scott Applewhite)
“Virginians need to see the federal government open. My expectation is that we are going to see a Congress, a Senate and finally a president driving us in that route,” Spanberger mentioned. “The federal government must open, and it must open instantly.”
She known as on the president to facilitate spending negotiations.
“We’d like the president to exhibit management, bringing individuals collectively, endeavoring to get by way of no matter negotiations must get by way of whether or not it’s earlier than or after,” Spanberger mentioned.
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The Senate stays in session over the weekend as lawmakers look to interrupt the gridlock. It’s unclear if the Senate will vote for a fifteenth time on Sunday on a brand new short-term funding extension proposal.
