From the Daily Caller: Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume said Monday that Democrats prolonged the government shutdown not out of concern for health care benefits but to brand themselves as the opposition to President Donald Trump.
Forty days into the shutdown, eight Senate Democrats broke with Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to back a GOP-led stopgap bill, giving the measure enough votes to advance and finally set the stage to reopen the government. During a panel discussion on “Special Report with Bret Baier,” Hume said prolonging the shutdown exposed what he called the Democrats’ true motivation.
“It really wasn’t about enhanced ACA (Affordable Care Act) benefits. It was about Democrats wanting to position themselves in resistance and opposition to Donald Trump in every way they could do,” Hume told Bret Baier.
“This whole shutdown was a fool’s errand from the start. This strategy has been tried a number of times before where you try to use the government shutdown and the pressure to get the government reopened as a lever to get something done you couldn’t get done by the normal process because you didn’t have the votes,” Hume said. “It has never worked. It was never going to work.”
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“It was untenable. It really wasn’t about ACA benefits, it was about Democrats wanting to position themselves in resistance and opposition to Donald Trump in any way they could do or appear to do.” pic.twitter.com/c00yqy0FQr
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During the same segment, Hume also pointed out, “If we cannot as a nation decide not to continue a subsidy that was imposed, or was enacted, during a national health emergency and was designed to be temporary and that all the Democrats voted to have be temporary, if we can’t let that expire, what hope do we ever have of getting government spending under control?”
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