Most of the blame for the government shutdown, which began at midnight, lies with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer because he is “fighting for his political life” and refusing to work with Republicans on a short-term funding plan, Rep. Dan Meuser told Newsmax on Wednesday.
“He’s right now looking for a way out, how to resolve this, because they have no answers,” the Pennsylvania Republican said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.” “We saw what happened a few months ago when Schumer did the right thing, but his left-wing base that leads the Democratic Party came all over him and said he didn’t do enough.”
And now, Meuser said, the New York Democrat is “trying to figure out how to get out of this.”
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