In an epic smackdown delivered via live television, News Nation’s Leland Vittert hammered his Democratic guest, Rep. Brad Schneider (D-IL), noting that the Continuing Resolution that Democrats are now refusing to back is the same clean funding bill of the sort that they have previously accepted, making this whole shutdown look ridiculous.
As background, the shutdown began on October 1 after the Senate failed to come to an agreement on funding such a continuing resolution on the night of September 30. Now having lasted over four weeks, the shutdown is the longest full shutdown in American history and has become a major battle in the media and political spheres.
Particularly, Democrats have insisted that the whole thing is the fault of the Republicans, as they are the party in power right now, whereas the Republicans have noted repeatedly and clearly that the fault lies with the Democrats, as they have rejected a “clean” CR, meaning one devoid of partisan spending, to insist upon hundreds of billions of dollars on healthcare for illegal aliens.
Such a fight presented itself on News Nation, with Rep. Schneider insisting that Republicans are at fault, and getting totally shut down over his government shutdown claims by Mr. Vittert, who noted what is really going on with the CR that Schumer and others shot down to begin the shutdown.
Beginning the angry back-and-forth part of the segment over the matter, Vittert said, ” Every Democratic senator, every Democratic member of the House who can call up their senators, they have a decision to make every day because Republicans are calling votes. Either the pain that is happening is worth it, or it’s not worth it.”
Continuing, and setting Rep. Schneider really off with his comments about what is going on here and what Democrats have apparently agreed to do, saying, “And what I’m hearing is, is you, you think that it’s worth keeping the government shut down to force Republicans to…”
As could be expected, that got Rep. Schneider really angry, and he rudely cut off the News Nation personality to insist, “That’s not what I’m saying. Don’t put words in my mouth. What you’re hearing is, first of all, Republicans saying it’s a clean CR, it’s not a clean CR, the Republicans dirtied this CR in March.”
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Firing back with an angry interruption of his own, Vittert noted, “It’s the same CR in March that Schumer voted for and everything.” Desperately trying to hold his own and push back on that, Rep. Schneider lamely and blandly insisted, before the segment ended, “But it’s not a clean CR.” Watch their spat here:
Commenters on a popular X post about the matter said things like “Why do Democrat leaders so blatantly lie when they can be immediately fact checked?” and “Demoncrats lying about the CR only proves that they are crooks, relying on deception. Confidence Tricksters.”
Another said, “Lies from the Democratic Party such as, Brad Schneider. Vittert cleared the record, Schumer voted for the same CR. This is politics playing with our American lives! The GOP is trying to keep the lights on, while the Left wants to destroy America with money laundering healthcare.”
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video