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Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., discusses the Senate’s spending bill push to end the government shutdown and House Minority Speaker Hakeem Jeffries’ leadership on ‘America Reports.’
The "Schumer Shutdown" is effectively over, just in time for the celebrations attending the 250th anniversary of the United States Marine Corps and Veterans Day. There are some votes still to be taken and messes to clean up at airports and for SNAP recipients. But the epic failure of this record-setting shutdown of the federal government is carved in political stone for as long as Schumer will be remembered.
Perhaps one or more of the eight Senate Democrats who threw in the proverbial towel Sunday were embarrassed to be honoring the Corps and all veterans even as they refused to do their jobs? We will never know their motives, and believing any Democrat’s public explanation for participation in this fiasco is unwise. (In fairness, three of the eight who joined 52 Republicans to reopen the federal government don’t deserve the scorn being heaped on the 39 Senate Democrats who got rolled.)
The eight (of 47) senators who saw the carnage being visited on millions by the "Schumer Shutdown" and defected are: Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, Sen. Jacky Rosen of Nevada, Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia and Indepentant Sen. Angus King of Maine
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Senators Cortez, Masto, Fetterman and King always voted with the Republicans to re-open the government. The reasons why the other five finally joined the coalition of the sane are unclear, but who knows and who cares?
The Congressional Democrats looked and acted like children throughout this record-setting escapade. Most voters may not remember this stunt that hurt so many millions of Americans — some quite badly— but, count on the GOP to try and remind voters frequently that the Democrats shut down the government for a record period of time because they feared the DSA radicals who have taken over their party in many places and are rising in others.
The biggest loser after the people actually hurt or at least inconvenienced by this stunt? The Democratic "leader" in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, by far.
Schumer’s strategy from the start was to head off a primary challenge in 2028 from Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC). New York holds its Democratic presidential primary on February 1, 2028, so I assume the Senate primary will be that day as well. Someone schooled in New York election law will have to weigh in on whether AOC can run in both, but if she does, Schumer loses the Senate nomination if we go by early polling.