
10/10/2025
Schumer says the quiet thing out loud. The democrats forced a government shutdown for their political purpose
WASHINGTON — The White House and its allies are circling Chuck Schumer’s wagon, and he’s not making it that hard for them.
“Every day gets better for us,” Schumer said in an interview with Punchbowl News. “It’s because we’ve thought about this long in advance, and we knew that health care would be the focal point on Sept. 30, and we prepared for it…Their whole theory was — threaten us, bamboozle us, and we would submit in a day or two.”
That first line was yet another messaging gem for Republicans who have argued that Democrats do not care about whether the shutdown is hurting Americans, and he drew criticism from not only Vice President JD Vance and a slew of other angry Republicans, but also the president himself.