Schumer calls Trump ‘most immature president’ while blaming government shutdown: Video
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday slammed Donald Trump as “the most immature president we have ever had” and accused Republicans of dragging the country into a government shutdown over health care funding.
Speaking on the Senate floor on October 1, the first full day of the shutdown, Schumer said Republicans had “barreled us into” the crisis by refusing to negotiate protections for Americans’ health care and instead pushing a partisan stopgap spending bill.
“Donald Trump and Republicans have barreled us into a shutdown because they refuse to protect Americans’ health care,” Schumer said. “It’s clear that the way out of this shutdown is to sit down and negotiate with Democrats to address the looming health care crisis that faces tens of millions of American families.”
“Donald Trump, instead of acting like an adult, is threatening to hurt countless hardworking Americans,” Schumer said. “Republicans need to roll up their sleeves, negotiate something real, and reopen the government,” he added.
The Democratic leader said the GOP-backed continuing resolution (CR), meant to keep the government running, had failed twice in the Senate because it ignored health care needs and refused to fix what he called “the mess Republicans created.”
“Why are we here on October 1st? Because Republicans have tried to stick us with a partisan CR that fails to protect Americans’ health care and does nothing, nothing, to fix the health care mess they created,” Schumer said.
He also took aim at House Speaker Mike Johnson, saying Republicans were “not even keeping the House in session” as the shutdown hit.
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