During the first week of October, several major political events occurred that affected nearly all students at FGCU in one way or another.\u00a0\u00a0To recap, the government shut down, there was a possible ceasefire between Israel and Gaza and the National Guard had been sent to Chicago.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Government Shutdown\u00a0<\/p>\n
On the US Department of Agriculture website, a pop-up appears addressing the government shutdown, which took effect on Oct. 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cDue to the Radical Left Democrat shutdown, this government website will not be updated during the funding lapse. President Donald J. Trump has made it clear he wants to keep the government open and support those who feed, fuel, and clothe the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u00a0The wording of this pop-up is alarming.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The reason for the government shutdown is the low budget the Trump administration set for healthcare, also known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA).\u00a0 At the end of the fiscal year, Sept. 30, Democrats and Republicans could not agree on a budget.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u00a0Therefore, the government could not continue working until it reached a comprehensive agreement.\u00a0The result was the shutdown.\u00a0This low-budget proposal from the Trump administration will result in higher healthcare costs for citizens to pay. Healthcare, however, is already infamously high in the US.\u00a0\u00a0The last government shutdown occurred during Trump\u2019s first term in 2018, which lasted 35 days.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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There are negative impacts of a shutdown, such as a lack of payment for federal employees, national parks being unable to operate efficiently and the shutdown of the nature center. Additionally, all call centers and help lines for problems with the distribution of federal aid services are reduced. Processing for new applicants and benefit verifications is delayed.\u00a0(ncsl.org)<\/p>\n
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This has personally affected those around me. I have had friends visit national parks and are unable to utilize the necessities inside the nature center and friends who will not be able to receive their payment for living and school expenses through their parents\u2019 previous service in the military.\u00a0Yet, the best response would not be to just agree on the low budget bill, because it would further disregard those in need.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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A Ceasefire Announced between Israel and Gaza.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Israel and Gaza have been at war since October 2023. Within that, there have been many different instances of ceasefire negotiations and deals between Israel and Gaza in the past few years. However, Trump made claims in an interview that this particular deal will stick.<\/p>\n
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\u201cAfter so many years of unceasing war and endless danger, today the skies are calm, the guns are silent, the sirens are still, and the sun rises on a Holy Land that is finally at peace, a land and a region that will live, God willing, in peace for all eternity,\u201d Trump said in a speech on Oct. 13 to the Israeli parliament according to ABC News.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Following this announcement, Israel released many of their hostages, including Greta Thunberg.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Thunberg is a 22-year-old Swedish activist. When she came back, she was revered by the media.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She has been an activist for our generation, dating back to 2018, when she was just 15 years old. She began her activism just fighting against climate change, but now, she has moved to politics.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
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This had startled the majority, seeing the cruelty on someone so close to home, someone who had been in the public eye.\u00a0That cruelty is being allegedly inflicted through starvation, beatings and lack of water. This topic, when it comes to wars, is deemed taboo and hardly ever talked about.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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National Guard\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Oct 6, it was also revealed that President Trump sent the National Guard to Chicago.\u00a0He stated that it was to address out-of-control crime. As seen on BBC News.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The National Guard\u2019s intended use is to act as a critical combat reserve for the Army and Air Force, deploying overseas to support military operations during conflicts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Using the National Guard on US soil against US citizens for protests is not something that sits right with citizens, causing even more protests. The US president is directly in charge of the National Guard.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Previously, the National Guard had also been deployed to other states. As the misuse of government tools is becoming a recurring pattern, it makes me question if the goal is to simply display the power of the government against the American people or to silence those who try to speak out.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the first week of October, several major political events occurred that affected nearly all students at FGCU…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-37451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}