Despite the Democratic Party’s best attempt to pin the blame on Republicans, who — admittedly — control the House, Senate, and White House, we have a dearth of media sob stories about people suffering from the effects of the Schumer Shutdown. But the media has largely been mum on this, while everyone from air traffic controllers to our troops goes without paychecks and the Democrats dig in their heels.
CNN admitted yesterday that the Schumer Shutdown has helped Republicans. ABC News blamed Democrats for it, too.
Now, CNBC is joining a growing list of people and groups putting pressure on the Democrats to reopen the government.
Between this and Tapper the polling must be absolute dumpster fire for them. https://t.co/G4g6Q2ABym
— Brittany Rae (@legitbrittFLA) October 29, 2025
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At least three prominent Democrats, including Rep. Katherine Clark (MA-05), as well as Senators Chris Coons (D-DE) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), have made it very clear that Democrats want to use the suffering of Americans as political leverage.
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Republicans are open to negotiating on those subsidies.
They’re not, however, negotiating on the trillions in new spending Democrats are demanding, including $1.5 trillion for illegal immigrant healthcare and a refunding of PBS/NPR and billions for “climate change” and LGBTQ initiatives in foreign nations.