Well, the radical wing of the Democrat Party demanded that Chuck Schumer shut down the government. And he did that today. What that radical wing had told him to do was work with them through his war room. He had a war room going for the last eight weeks to orchestrate the shutdown. But the cracks in the Democrats are already showing. When we had a vote on our proposal to keep the government open, the clean cr, right before the recess, we had one Democrat vote tonight, we had three. (02:37–02:43)
CLAIM
Claims that Chuck Schumer organized a strategic effort over eight weeks to plan the government shutdown.
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