On the first day of the 2013 government shutdown, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-New York, had a message for Republicans who refused to fund the government unless Congress defunded Obamacare: Hostage-taking would not work. "As we said a thousand times, we are happy to discuss how to fund the government, but not with a gun to our heads," Schumer said on the Senate floor. "You are not going to get us to give in to extortion," he continued. "You are not going to take, as hostage, millions of innocent Americans and succeed in getting us to do something you want, and we don't, and they don't. That shutdown ended after 16 days and Republicans had little to show for it. Twelve years later, Schumer and Democrats, now in the minority, are staring down another government shutdown -- but one that might be of

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