Something that we should have done a long time ago. So I'm going to hand it over to the whip, Senator Barrasso, and then my other colleagues. 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. (02:25–02:31)
CLAIM
Asserts that a faction within the Democratic Party influenced Chuck Schumer to initiate a government shutdown.
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