Even before the federal government shut down Wednesday, Democratic and Republican lawmakers in South Florida were engaging in partisan finger pointing on who's to blame for the legislative standoff.

“President [Donald] Trump could have stopped this shutdown, but he chose not to,” said U.S. Rep Frederica Wilson, a Miami Democrat, in a statement hours before Congress failed to reach an agreement to keep funding the federal government. "It's a Trump shutdown."

“Make no mistake: this is a Schumer-led shutdown,” U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, a Miami Republican, said in a statement earlier this week. "The Democrats are in total disarray, obsessed with President Trump instead of governing. Shutdowns are devastating for our troops, veterans, and national security.”

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