Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., told Newsmax on Wednesday that he “can’t actually believe” that the government has been shut down because Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is “afraid” of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
“It’s a pretty simple choice that the Democrats had and still have — we’ll vote on it again today — which is to have this clean funding bill without any partisan riders a part of it or to shut the government down — and they’ve chosen the latter,” Schmitt said on “Wake Up America.”
“I think the real story here is why,” he said. “The reason why is that Chuck Schumer is afraid of AOC in a primary in a couple years, and the Democrats don’t have a leader, they don’t have a message, and the left is gaining more and more control of that party apparatus, and they’re afraid of their own shadow.”
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