Fox News hosts were quick to shut down the lone liberal voice on The Five after she debunked a misleading Republican claim about the government shutdown.

During a heated discussion about the first government shutdown since 2019, which took effect at midnight on Wednesday after a deadlocked Congress failed to reach a deal on a stopgap measure, Jesse Watters argued that President Donald Trump was unlikely to be the first to buckle in the standoff between Democrats and Republicans.

The impasse centers on a push by Democrats to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year, as well as to undo massive Medicaid cuts embedded in Trump’s “big, beautiful” megabill.

“You think Trump is going to cave and say, ‘Okay, let’s give billions to illegal aliens?’” Watt

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