Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego of Arizona appeared on CNN Tuesday, where host Kasie Hunt asked why Democrats have abandoned the “norm” of trying to negotiate to end the GOP shutdown.

"Oh, that's an easy answer—it's Donald Trump. You're talking about 'norms' in the time of Donald Trump. It's also normal not for you to tear down the East Wing,” he said “It's all out the window.”

“We're not going to go back and play by the norms when we know what's on the line. What’s on the line is 24 million people are going to have their insurance rates doubled,” Gallego said.

Hunt then interrupted to suggest that Democrats are to blame because they agreed to sunset Affordable Care Act subsidies.

"When we passed the bills, back in the day, as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, of course we were trying

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