Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) “is going to own” the potential government shutdown, Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-SD) said during an appearance Monday on Breitbart News Daily .
Johnson explained that Republicans are presenting a truly clean continuing resolution (CR) and that Democrats are threatening to shut down the government over “COVID-era giveaways,” despite the fact that COVID was five years ago.
“There is not a single partisan poison pill. There’s nothing that would trip anybody up,” Johnson said. “We’re just going to hit pause for six weeks so that we can negotiate while the government is open rather than negotiate while the government is closed. Apparently, that is asking too much of Chuck Schumer,” he said, making the case that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY