You know, Democrats are infamous for stepping in it over shutdowns, as we saw, for instance, when Democratic leaders opened their mouths and stuck their feet in it during the Schumer Shutdown in the fall of 2025.
Just a week into the shutdown, Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) infamously asserted that “every day gets better for us” even as TSA delays were piling up and federal workers weren’t getting paid:
We interviewed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday in his Capitol office, where the New York Democrat was as bullish as he’s ever been about his shutdown strategy.“Every day gets better for us,” Schumer asserted.
“Democrats are gleeful about inflicting pain on the American people,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt noted in response.
Two weeks into the Schumer Shutdown, House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA) made an even more damning admission:
“Shutdowns are terrible and, of course, there will be, you know, families that are going to suffer. We take that responsibility very seriously. But it is one of the few leverage items we have. It is an inflection point in this budget process where we have tried to get the Republicans to meet with us and prioritize the American people.”
There was also this:
Congressional Democrats are privately preparing to hold their position in the shutdown standoff for several more weeks if Republicans do not agree to their health care demands – and not even a missed paycheck for US troops will force them to yield.[…]Another senior Democratic aide said as long as public perception is in their favor, the party will not concede short of “planes falling out of the sky.”
Thankfully, no planes fell from the sky during the Schumer Shutdown.
But over three months later, and amid national security threats, the Iran strikes, TSA delays, and some federal workers going unpaid, Democrats are not only dug in on the partial shutdown that is hampering DHS’s ability to protect the homeland, but they’re actually “serene” about holding up the funding due to their supposed concerns about ICE, according to Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI):
It’s absolute insanity:
In light of the two attacks that happened on Thursday, with at least one possibly being ISIS-inspired and the other antisemitic, will Schatz amend his despicable comments about withholding funding for DHS at this critical time? It’s unlikely, because as we’ve talked about many times before, Democrats are willing to sacrifice just about anything – including the safety and security of American citizens – in order to protect criminal illegal immigrants here in the United States.
Why are they doing this? Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) perhaps said it best during an April 2024 hearing where then-President Joe Biden’s DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was in the hot seat:
“It’s a fact, and I know it: that the more people you allow into our country illegally, the more people are counted for reapportionment, and the more people that you allow into our country illegally, the more people are counted for allocating electoral votes,” he reiterated. “Now maybe that’s a coincidence, but that’s fact. You know that, and you’ve done nothing for four years: nada, zero, zilch.”
And if Democrats were still in charge, that would still be happening. As it stands now, they’re not, so they’ve resorted to the only “leverage” they have: making the American people suffer and be at greater risk of harm in an effort to protect criminal illegal immigrants from deportation.
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