Ossoff sticks with Trump resistance despite shutdown pressure
Ramsey Touchberry
October 9, 2025
Washington Examiner
He’s the country’s most vulnerable Senate Democrat up for reelection. Even so, Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) is showing no signs of shifting to the center in a fight over government funding.
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He is running a base-centric campaign as Democrats clamor for their party leaders to vocally oppose President Donald Trump.
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Ossoff boasts the seventh-most liberal voting record among his colleagues for a Congress that began in January, according to voteview.com[…] But he’s also made the risky calculation of calling for Trump’s impeachment in April[.]
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In brief remarks to reporters, Ossoff framed his shutdown votes in the context of expiring Obamacare subsidies that Democrats want extended in exchange for their support.
But even before then, Ossoff has sided with the grassroots of his party. In March, he broke with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) when leadership caved in a separate fight over government funding.
The Senate GOP’s campaign arm has aggressively targeted Ossoff in a bid to expand the party’s 53-47 majority. An ad from the National Republican Senatorial Committee, released on the shutdown’s first day, accused Ossoff of having “stabbed our veterans in the back, voting with Schumer to shut down the government.”
“Jon Ossoff has proved time and time again he will always go along with what national Democrats like Kamala Harris demand,” said NRSC regional spokesman Nick Puglia.
Harris visited Atlanta on Wednesday as part of a tour promoting her new book about the 2024 campaign.
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