“Go big or go home”, an idiom Donald Trump has been embracing since becoming President of the United States for a second term in 2025, has sent everything to a toss.
The latest to fall victim to this belief is none other than the government itself, the one he represents. After refusing to agree to the Democrats’ proposed terms for a short-term funding bill related to healthcare and federal spending, the government went into a temporary shutdown on September 30, 2025, due to a lack of consensus on the bill.
