Friday’s vote to end the government shutdown likely won’t pass, as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats want to keep the government closed for political gain, Sen. Joni Ernst told Newsmax.
“Schumer is up to his shenanigans, and we’re on day three of the Schumer shutdown,” the Iowa Republican told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America” on Friday. “We have 750,000 federal government bureaucrats that are not at work, but will continue to get paid at a cost of about $400 million every single day.”
She added that the shutdown has already cost taxpayers about $1 billion in lost work.
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