{"id":556069,"date":"2026-03-31T11:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/556069\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T11:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:52:10","slug":"rhode-island-congressman-plans-real-housewives-watch-party-amid-partial-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/556069\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhode Island Congressman Plans ‘Real Housewives’ Watch Party Amid Partial Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rep. Seth Magaziner
\n Gov’t Shutdown Can Wait …
\n Let’s Watch the New ‘Housewives’ Premiere!!!<\/p>\n

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\n March 31, 2026
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U.S. Rep. Seth Magaziner’s leaving political drama behind during his 2-week vacay, and he’s replacing it with some good old-fashioned reality TV drama … partial government shutdown be damned!<\/p>\n

The Congressman from Rhode Island announced last week he’ll cohost a watch party for “The Real Housewives of Rhode Island” — the newest edition of the long-running Bravo franchise — when the show premieres April 2.<\/p>\n

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Rhode Island State Rep. Jackie Baginski and State Sen. Hanna Gallo are cohosting the evening, which will feature hors d’oeuvres, specialty cocktails and door prizes.<\/p>\n

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If Rep. Magaziner’s watch party feels like severe tone deafness, that’s because your elected members of Congress jetted outta Washington<\/a> without doing their jobs … namely ending the partial government shutdown, and getting relief for thousands of government employees.<\/p>\n

While Rep. Seth’s busy planning a night full of fun, food, and ferocious reality TV, TSA officers are waiting with bated breath to find out if the House will finally fund their department — and others — as the shutdown’s left many unpaid for weeks.<\/p>\n

As you know, on Friday, the Senate finally agreed to partially fund the Department of Homeland Security — minus ICE and Border Patrol — but House Speaker Mike Johnson<\/a> shot it down … meaning, there will be no deal until they’re back in session.<\/p>\n

Now, it’s true the congressional recess is also called a “district work period” … a time when members of Congress are supposed to interact with constituents in their district. A ‘Housewives’ watch party isn’t exactly a town hall, but here we are.<\/p>\n

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It just doesn’t seem like a good look … especially when a TSA agent like Rebecca Wolf tells us she made a little more than $13 when she got her last paycheck<\/a> on February 28.<\/p>\n

Thirteen bucks might get ya a specialty cocktail at Magaziner’s upcoming party, but good luck surviving on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rep. Seth Magaziner Gov’t Shutdown Can Wait … Let’s Watch the New ‘Housewives’ Premiere!!! Published March 31, 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-556069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}