Democrat Who Caved on Shutdown Says Chuck Schumer Knew All Along
Source: The New Republic
Senator Jeanne Shaheen revealed that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer knew the entire time about the plan for a few Democrats to capitulate to Republicans on the government shutdown.
Shaheen, one of the seven Democrats (and one independent) who dropped their demand for a guaranteed extension of Obamacare subsidies, spoke to Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade on Monday morning.
“Senator Chuck Schumer, your leader in the Senate, said ‘I cannot support a continuing resolution that fails to address health care, I am voting no.’ Did you do this outside leadership, and was there a big push for you not to join the others and break the 60 threshold?” Kilmeade asked.
“No, we kept leadership informed throughout,” Shaheen responded. “And I think it’s important to remember who’s responsible for why we got into this shutdown. We are here because we are concerned about the health care costs rising significantly on millions of Americans, and we didn’t have any indication before the shutdown started that our Republican colleagues were willing to address it.”
Read more: https://newrepublic.com/post/202942/democrat-caved-shutdown-chuck-schumer-knew-shaheen
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"knew the entire time about the plan for a few Democrats to capitulate to Republicans on the government shutdown"
Bullshit, that's not what she said. Well, if "the entire time" is defined as since the day the shutdown started, she did not say that.
The GQP would LOVE to be able to paint the Democrats as having been grandstanding the entire time, and now here's a prominent liberal outlet (wrongly) claiming just that. And I see others on this site echoing that. Don't do their dirty work for them.
